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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
Computer Scientist
Motivational Speaker
Pedagogue
Professor
University Teacher
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Baltimore
Maryland
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: We worked hard at it.
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Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?
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It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
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No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better
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Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.
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We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.
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I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain just work harder.
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The questions are always more important than the answers.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
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if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
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The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
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He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.
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somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do
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Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
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I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.
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Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
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Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I'm sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do I make it better? It's the third part that people tend to forget. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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