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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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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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 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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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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You can always change your plan, but only if you have one..'
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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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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.'
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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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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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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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.
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I've always admired people who are over-prepared. In college, I had a classmate named Norman Meyrowitz. One day he was giving a presentation on an overhead projector' and the bulb subsequently went out. The class thought the presentation was over. 'It's okay,' Norm announced . . . and he went to his backpack and grabbed an extra bulb he brought with him.
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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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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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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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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Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.