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

Randy Pausch

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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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A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.
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Look for the best in everybody
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Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.
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The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.
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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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It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.
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If you have a question, then find the answer.
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Often think of the worst-case scenario, the Eaten By Wolves factor.
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If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.
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The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.
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To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.
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Apologies are not pass/fail.
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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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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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Respect authority while questioning it.
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When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
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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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Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education
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if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
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I've always admired people who are over-prepared.
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