Randy Pausch Quotes
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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.
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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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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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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
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Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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Never give up.
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Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
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Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
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Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'
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Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'
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I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.
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The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
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Having been selected to be an author in the World Book, I now believe that Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for your information, because I know what the quality control is for real encyclopedias - they let me in.
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It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.'
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Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'