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Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.

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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
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Randy Frederick Pausch
Randy F. Pausch
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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress 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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somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do
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I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.
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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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Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.
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Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.
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Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.
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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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To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.
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We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.
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I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.
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Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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