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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
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if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
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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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The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.
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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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Don’t complain just work harder.
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Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?
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Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.
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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'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.
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I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
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Never make a decesion until you have to. He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.
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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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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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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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It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.
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When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
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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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Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
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We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.
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The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
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