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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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.
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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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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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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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Work hard.
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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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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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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 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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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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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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Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!
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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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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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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.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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People are more important than things.'