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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
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If you have a question, then find the answer.
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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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No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.
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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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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.
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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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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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I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?
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Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
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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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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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I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
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The questions are always more important than the answers.
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People are more important than things.
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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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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.
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The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.
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