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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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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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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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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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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I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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Τὴν πεπρωμένην δὲ χρὴαἶσαν φέρειν ὡς ῥᾷστα, γιγνώσκονθ' ὅτιτὸ τῆς ἀνάγκης ἔστ' ἀδήριτον σθένος.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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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.'
