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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
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The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.
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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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I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.
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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've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.
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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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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
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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 can always change you plan, but only if you have one.
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A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
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Respect authority while questioning it.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
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The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.
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There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.
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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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Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.
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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.
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