Randy Pausch Quotes
Clutter is death; it leads to thrashing. Keep desk clear: focus on one thing at a time.
Quotes to Explore
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
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A dress should never take over someone.
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'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.
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The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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Clutter is death; it leads to thrashing. Keep desk clear: focus on one thing at a time.
