Randy Pausch Quotes
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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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Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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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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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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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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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.
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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.