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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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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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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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What he said was: You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere. And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.
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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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Look for the best in everybody
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We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
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Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.
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if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
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Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
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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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Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it
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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.
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Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded
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Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.
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There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.
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There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.
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There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give it's something they have to build.
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I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
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