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If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).

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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
Computer Scientist
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Randy Frederick Pausch
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Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?
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You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.
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If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.
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We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.
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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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No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.
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Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it
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Never make a decesion until you have to. He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.
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Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.
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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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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
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You can always change you plan, but only if you have one.
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