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Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
Randy Pausch
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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
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Baltimore
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Randy Frederick Pausch
Randy F. Pausch
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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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Don’t complain just work harder.
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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 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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