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Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
Computer Scientist
Motivational Speaker
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Baltimore
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Randy Frederick Pausch
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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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Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
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If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).
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Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.
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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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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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Apologies are not pass/fail.
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The questions are always more important than the answers.
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I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.
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Don’t complain just work harder.
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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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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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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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Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?
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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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If you have a question, then find the answer.
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We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.
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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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I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
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When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
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