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I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here. -- Randy Pausch
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When they talk of building self-esteem, they often resort to empty flattery rather than character-building honesty. I've heard so many people talk of downward spiral in our educational system, and I think one key factor is that there is too much stroking and too littke real feedback. -- Randy Pausch
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Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you. -- Randy Pausch
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest. -- Randy Pausch
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Though I am not a fan of TV - it's mankind's greatest time-waster, the gift was completely appropriate, since I'll be in bed so much at the end. TV will be one of my last links to the outside world. -- Randy Pausch
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You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better. -- Randy Pausch
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When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you. -- Randy Pausch
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It was a hot summer night, and I had the soundtrack to Disney's The Lion King blasting on my stereo. Tears actually began streaming down my face as I drove past the building. Here I was, the grown-up version of that wide-eyed eight-year-old at Disneyland. I had finally arrived. I was an Imagineer. -- Randy Pausch
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When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved. -- Randy Pausch
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Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from. -- Randy Pausch
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Dance with who brung you -- Randy Pausch
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun. -- Randy Pausch
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We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities. -- Randy Pausch
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You can always change you plan, but only if you have one. -- Randy Pausch
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I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets. -- Randy Pausch
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A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't. -- Randy Pausch
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Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting. -- Randy Pausch
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I had fallen in love, even if she was still finding her way. -- Randy Pausch
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If you want something badly enough, do not give up! -- Randy Pausch
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Don't finish someone's sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn't make your idea any better. -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it -- Randy Pausch
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That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." In -- Randy Pausch
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We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond. -- Randy Pausch
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I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain; just work harder. -- Randy Pausch
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My colleague told me: "It took a long time, but I've finally figured it out. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do." That -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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Never lose the child like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us. Help others. -- Randy Pausch
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Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface. -- Randy Pausch
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Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that. -- Randy Pausch
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp. -- Randy Pausch
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Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you. -- Randy Pausch
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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? -- Randy Pausch
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We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived. -- Randy Pausch
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember ... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not. -- Randy Pausch
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There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart. -- Randy Pausch
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A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. -- Randy Pausch
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Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out. -- Randy Pausch
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Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs. -- Randy Pausch
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Through the whole ordeal, I don't think we ever said to each other: "This isn't fair." We just kept going. We recognized that there were things we could do that might help the outcome in a positive ways ... and we did them. Without saying it in words, our attitude was, "Let's saddle up and ride. -- Randy Pausch
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Please don't die. -- Randy Pausch
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The metaphor I've used is ... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets. -- Randy Pausch
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In the fifty years my parents were married, in the thousands of conversations my dad had with me, it had just never come up. And so there I was, weeks after his death, getting another lesson from him about the meaning of sacrifice - and about the power of humility -- Randy Pausch
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The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn. -- Randy Pausch
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If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds. -- Randy Pausch
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Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch. -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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Jai handles me by being frank. -- Randy Pausch
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As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster. -- Randy Pausch
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If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out. -- Randy Pausch
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Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.' -- Randy Pausch
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Are you a Tigger or an Eyore? -- Randy Pausch
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Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages. -- Randy Pausch
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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. -- Randy Pausch
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I've found that a substantial fraction of many people's days is spent
worrying about what others think of them. If nobody ever worried
about what was in other people's heads, we'd all be 33 percent more
effective in our lives and on our jobs. -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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There should be some lessons learned and how you can use the stuff you hear today to achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older, you may find that "enabling the dreams of others" thing is even more fun. -- Randy Pausch
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I had just two rules for their virtual reality worlds: No shooting violence and no pornography. I issued that decree mostly because those things have been done in computer games only about a zillion times, and I was looking for original thinking. -- Randy Pausch
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Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams. -- Randy Pausch
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Focus on other people, not on yourself. -- Randy Pausch
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed. -- Randy Pausch
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Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you ... (Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating) -- Randy Pausch
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I was hugely impressed ... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.
I wish every grad student had that attitude. -- Randy Pausch
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No job is beneath you.
You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail. -- Randy Pausch
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When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care. -- Randy Pausch
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It makes no sense to talk about people's rights without also talking about responsibilities. The Last Lecture -- Randy Pausch
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(It's easy to look smart when you're parroting smart people.) -- Randy Pausch
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Tenacity is a virtue, but it's not always crucial for everyone to observe
how hard you work at something. -- Randy Pausch
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Go out and do for others what somebody did for you. -- Randy Pausch
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it. -- Randy Pausch
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Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing. -- Randy Pausch
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The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective. -- Randy Pausch
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Get a feedback loop and listen to it ... When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it. -- Randy Pausch
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Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care. Worry when you do something badly and nobody bothers to tell you. -- Randy Pausch
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but he just keeps showing up in my head, forcing me to work harder whenever I feel like quitting, forcing me to be better. -- Randy Pausch
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Educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve - as Coach Graham taught me - is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse? -- Randy Pausch
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.... -- Randy Pausch
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It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun. -- Randy Pausch
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That meant when I wasn't happy about something, I spoke up, often directly and not always tactfully. -- Randy Pausch
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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? -- Randy Pausch
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I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note. -- Randy Pausch
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The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror. -- Randy Pausch
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Respect authority while questioning it. -- Randy Pausch
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Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude ... Don't complain; just work harder ... Never give up. -- Randy Pausch
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Don't complain; just work harder. -- Randy Pausch
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you. -- Randy Pausch
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. -- Randy Pausch
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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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Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You've got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work. -- Randy Pausch
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children. -- Randy Pausch
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I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured. -- Randy Pausch
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Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded -- Randy Pausch
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How long before I die?" he answered, "You probably have three to six months of good health." That reminded me of my time at Disney. Ask Disney World workers: "What time does the park close?" They're supposed to answer: "The park is open until 8 p.m." In -- Randy Pausch
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No matter how bad the circumstance it could always be worse. -- Randy Pausch
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes. -- Randy Pausch
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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, -- Randy Pausch
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I'd compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding. -- Randy Pausch
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If your trashcan or wheelbarrow has dent in it, you don't buy a new one. Maybe that's because we don't use trashcans and wheelbarrows to communicate our social status or identity to others. -- Randy Pausch
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Not everything needs to be fixed -- Randy Pausch
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Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward. -- Randy Pausch
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Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator. -- Randy Pausch
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What is the most appropriate thing to say to a friend who was about to die. He answered:"tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Whenever he goes, you also g. He will not be alone". -- Randy Pausch
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I've always admired people who are over-prepared. -- Randy Pausch
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You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore. -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate! -- Randy Pausch
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Each of us must decide: Am I a fun-loving Tigger or am I a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. -- Randy Pausch
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You don't beat the grim reaper by living longer; you beat the grim reaper by living better. -- Randy Pausch
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. -- Randy Pausch
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I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources. -- Randy Pausch
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Develop a good filing system. -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true. -- Randy Pausch
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Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK. -- Randy Pausch
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If you have a question," my folks would say, "then find the answer." The -- Randy Pausch
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If you have a question, then find the answer. -- Randy Pausch
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Don't Obsess Over What People Think -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. -- Randy Pausch
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There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. -- Randy Pausch
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If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time. -- Randy Pausch
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I mean, I don't know how not to have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there's no other way to play it. -- Randy Pausch
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I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard ... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing ... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour. -- Randy Pausch
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I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong. -- Randy Pausch
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Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is ... We've all heard that -- Randy Pausch
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There's a formality in academia that can't be ignored, even if a man is busy with other things, like trying not to die. -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time. -- Randy Pausch
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There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses. -- Randy Pausch
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You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more. -- Randy Pausch
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Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other. -- Randy Pausch
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit. -- Randy Pausch
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When there's an elephant in the room introduce him. -- Randy Pausch
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The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening. -- Randy Pausch
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Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you. -- Randy Pausch
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There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result. -- Randy Pausch
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Find your passion and follow it. You wont find that passion in things or money. Your passion must come from what fuels you from the inside. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes. -- Randy Pausch
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Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't need to be alive for that to happen. -- Randy Pausch
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To recognize that automobiles are there to get you from point A to point B. They are utilitarian devices, not expressions of social status. -- Randy Pausch
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If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered). -- Randy Pausch
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I'm sorry.
It's my fault.
How do I make it right? -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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Apologies are not pass/fail. -- Randy Pausch
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It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai -- Randy Pausch
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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully. -- Randy Pausch
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible. -- Randy Pausch
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If you're going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity -- Randy Pausch
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve. -- Randy Pausch
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Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor. -- Randy Pausch
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[Jim Graham] had been a linebacker at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play. -- Randy Pausch
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There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened. -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist. -- Randy Pausch
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It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit ... and keep moving forward. -- Randy Pausch
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Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap. -- Randy Pausch
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My coach knew there was only one way to develop (self esteem): You give children something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process. -- Randy Pausch
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical. -- Randy Pausch
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.' -- Randy Pausch
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. -- Randy Pausch
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When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening. -- Randy Pausch
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When giving an apology, any performance lower than an A really doesn't cut it. -- Randy Pausch
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We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here's my mother, figuring "alert" ought to suffice as a compliment. -- Randy Pausch
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Time is the only commodity that matters. -- Randy Pausch
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term. -- Randy Pausch
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I love all three of my kids completely and differently. And I want them to know that I will love them for as long as they live. I will. -- Randy Pausch
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We can't change the cards we're dealt, just how we play the hand. -- Randy Pausch
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Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone else feel happy to be here. p118 -- Randy Pausch
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Not everything has to be fixed. -- Randy Pausch
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No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. -- Randy Pausch
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Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier. -- Randy Pausch
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A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard. -- Randy Pausch
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you. -- Randy Pausch
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I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice. -- Randy 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. -- Randy Pausch
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If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we'd all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs. -- Randy Pausch
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it. -- Randy Pausch
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Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches. -- Randy Pausch
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If you wait long enough," he said, "people will surprise and impress you. -- Randy Pausch
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Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre. -- Randy Pausch
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left. -- Randy Pausch
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Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you'd suspect, the answer you'll get is, Sure. -- Randy Pausch
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Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish. -- Randy Pausch
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Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective. -- Randy Pausch
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Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential. The Last Lecture -- Randy Pausch
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake. -- Randy Pausch
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If you love her, support her. -- Randy Pausch
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Brick walls are there for a 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. -- Randy Pausch
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For Jai and me, our dented cars became a statement in our marriage. Not everything needs to be fixed. -- Randy Pausch
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. -- Randy Pausch
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Somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do -- Randy Pausch
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It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people. -- Randy Pausch
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To-Do lists help us break life into small steps. -- Randy Pausch
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It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough. -- Randy Pausch
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Tenacity got me over the brick wall. -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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I don't believe in the no-win scenario -- Randy Pausch
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I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. -- Randy Pausch
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Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer. -- Randy Pausch
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family. -- Randy Pausch
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One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. -- Randy Pausch
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome. -- Randy Pausch
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When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do. -- Randy Pausch
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Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful! -- Randy Pausch
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Sometimes, all you have to do is ask. -- Randy Pausch
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All my life, I've been very aware that time is finite. -- Randy Pausch
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I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness. -- Randy Pausch
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Self-steam ? He knew there was really one way to teach kids how to develop it : You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they can do it, and you keep repeating the process. -- Randy Pausch
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Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level. -- Randy Pausch
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When we're connected to others, we become better people. -- Randy Pausch
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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you. -- Randy Pausch
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If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? -- Randy Pausch
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People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort. -- Randy Pausch
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Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think. -- Randy Pausch
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I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left. -- Randy Pausch
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She told us she could see the great respect between us, -- Randy Pausch
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Look for the best in everybody -- Randy Pausch
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The questions are always more important than the answers. -- Randy Pausch
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If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today. -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them. -- Randy Pausch
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And even though I did not reach the NFL, I sometimes think I got more from persuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, then I did from many of the ones I did accomplish. -- Randy Pausch
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Who remembers that it was Kirk who introduced us to the cell phone? -- Randy Pausch
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Because you're such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they're going to use you as a salesman. If you're going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education -- Randy Pausch
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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. -- Randy Pausch
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you're only as good as your word, -- Randy Pausch
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Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear. -- Randy Pausch
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It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand. -- Randy Pausch
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun. -- Randy Pausch
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore. -- Randy Pausch
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You've got to get the fundamentals down, because otherwise the fancy stuff is not going to work. -- Randy Pausch
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Who come out limp often have the most trouble. But the ones who come out all pissed off and full of noise,
they're the fighters. They're the ones who thrive. -- Randy Pausch
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Let other people finish their sentences when they're talking. -- Randy Pausch
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You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand. -- Randy Pausch
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Until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work -- Randy Pausch
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Time must be explicitly managed, like money. -- Randy Pausch
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Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it ... when in fact, they didn't -- Randy Pausch
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Dance with the one who brung you. -- Randy Pausch
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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! -- Randy Pausch
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We cannot change the cards we are delt, just how we play the hand -- Randy Pausch
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An injured lion still wants to roar. -- Randy Pausch
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Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing. -- Randy Pausch
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You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it's much easier to address issues where you have differences. Sports cut across boundaries of race and wealth. And if nothing else, we all have the weather in common. -- Randy Pausch
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that. -- Randy 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. -- Randy Pausch
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It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life. -- Randy Pausch
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I sure got their attention. That's always the first step to solving an ignored problem. -- Randy Pausch
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws. -- Randy Pausch
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If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it. -- Randy Pausch