Randy Pausch Quotes
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.'
Quotes to Explore
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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p. 103
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I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.
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The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
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I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.
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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.'
