Randy Pausch Quotes
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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'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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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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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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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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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
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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 didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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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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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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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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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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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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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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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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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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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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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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We're not going to talk about spirituality and religion. Although I will tell you that I have experienced a deathbed conversion. I just bought a Macintosh.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.