Randy Pausch Quotes
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When you’re only doing it for one play and you’re just not where you’re supposed to be, and freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose, boy are you going to clean somebody’s clock for that one play.
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Delegation: No one is an island. You can accomplish a lot more with help.
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We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.
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Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
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You don’t find time for important things, you make it.
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The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.
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Help others.
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Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone, maybe at home. Find your dead time. Schedule meetings, phone calls, and mundane stuff during it.
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Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.'
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Clutter is death; it leads to thrashing. Keep desk clear: focus on one thing at a time.
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And I think that that’s one of the best things you can give somebody – the chance to show them what it feels like to make other people get excited and happy.
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Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.
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Show gratitude.
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When you’ve had something for ten years that you hold so precious, it’s the toughest thing in the world to hand it over. And the only advice I can give you is, find somebody better than you to hand it to.