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To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

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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
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Randy Frederick Pausch
Randy F. Pausch
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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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Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
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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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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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All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: We worked hard at it.
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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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Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.
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I've always admired people who are over-prepared.
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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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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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Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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The questions are always more important than the answers.
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And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.
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if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
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Time must be explicitly managed, like money.
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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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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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He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.
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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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