Randy Pausch Quotes
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Don't bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.
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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.
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Avoiding Procrastination: Doing things at the last minute is much more expensive than just before the last minute. Deadlines are really important: establish them yourself!
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People are more important than things.'
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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Did you figure out the head fake? 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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Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!
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Work hard.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Respect authority while questioning it.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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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.
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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.
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When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon - anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!
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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.'
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You can always change your plan, but only if you have one..'
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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.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
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General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.