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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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The questions are always more important than the answers.
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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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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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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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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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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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Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?
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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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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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You can always change you plan, but only if you have one.
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Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.
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Don’t complain just work harder.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.
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I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain just work harder.
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Often think of the worst-case scenario, the Eaten By Wolves factor.
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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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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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The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.
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