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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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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
Computer Scientist
Motivational Speaker
Pedagogue
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University Teacher
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Baltimore
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Randy Frederick Pausch
Randy F. Pausch
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It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.
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We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.
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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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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
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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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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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The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
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Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.
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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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To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.
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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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But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.
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Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
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Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.
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Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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Often think of the worst-case scenario, the Eaten By Wolves factor.
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If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
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No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?
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It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
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