Top 100 Randy Pausch Quotes

#1. Not everything needs to be fixed

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#2. I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

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#3. The questions are always more important than the answers.

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#4. I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

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#5. My colleague told me: "It took a long time, but I've finally figured it out. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do." That

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#6. We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.

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#7. Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

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#8. Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.

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#9. Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded

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#10. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.

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#11. Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it

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#12. Develop a good filing system.

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#13. I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

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#14. Don't finish someone's sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn't make your idea any better.

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#15. You've got to get the fundamentals down, because otherwise the fancy stuff is not going to work.

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#16. She told us she could see the great respect between us,

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#17. 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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#18. As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.

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#19. Please don't die.

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#20. And even though I did not reach the NFL, I sometimes think I got more from persuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, then I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

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#21. The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

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#22. What is the most appropriate thing to say to a friend who was about to die. He answered:"tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Whenever he goes, you also g. He will not be alone".

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#23. The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.

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#24. Anything is possible, and that's something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

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#25. When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

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#26. Never lose the child like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us. Help others.

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#27. Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.

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#28. I was hugely impressed ... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.
I wish every grad student had that attitude.

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#29. There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

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#30. It makes no sense to talk about people's rights without also talking about responsibilities. The Last Lecture

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#31. Self-steam ? He knew there was really one way to teach kids how to develop it : You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they can do it, and you keep repeating the process.

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#32. If you wait long enough," he said, "people will surprise and impress you.

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#33. No matter how bad the circumstance it could always be worse.

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#34. Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

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#35. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.

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#36. Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.

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#37. Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

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#38. If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

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#39. I had fallen in love, even if she was still finding her way.

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#40. A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

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#41. Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You've got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work.

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#42. Proper apologies have three parts:
1) What I did was wrong.
2) I feel badly that I hurt you.
3) How do I make this better?

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#43. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

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#44. One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

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#45. [Jim Graham] had been a linebacker at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play.

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#46. Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.

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#47. When giving an apology, any performance lower than an A really doesn't cut it.

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#48. Dance with the one who brung you.

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#49. (It's easy to look smart when you're parroting smart people.)

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#50. Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

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#51. I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

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#52. Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.

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#53. You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

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#54. All my life, I've been very aware that time is finite.

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#55. It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.

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#56. Through the whole ordeal, I don't think we ever said to each other: "This isn't fair." We just kept going. We recognized that there were things we could do that might help the outcome in a positive ways ... and we did them. Without saying it in words, our attitude was, "Let's saddle up and ride.

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#57. I sure got their attention. That's always the first step to solving an ignored problem.

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#58. Find your passion and follow it. You wont find that passion in things or money. Your passion must come from what fuels you from the inside. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes.

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#59. I had just two rules for their virtual reality worlds: No shooting violence and no pornography. I issued that decree mostly because those things have been done in computer games only about a zillion times, and I was looking for original thinking.

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#60. There should be some lessons learned and how you can use the stuff you hear today to achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older, you may find that "enabling the dreams of others" thing is even more fun.

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#61. Until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work

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#62. Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you ... (Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating)

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#63. I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

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#64. Not everything has to be fixed.

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#65. Never make a decesion until you have to". He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

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#66. Who come out limp often have the most trouble. But the ones who come out all pissed off and full of noise,
they're the fighters. They're the ones who thrive.

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#67. 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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#68. It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit ... and keep moving forward.

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#69. Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom....

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#70. If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

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#71. Don't complain; just work harder.

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#72. Let other people finish their sentences when they're talking.

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#73. I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

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#74. When we're connected to others, we become better people.

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#75. We cannot change the cards we are delt, just how we play the hand

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#76. 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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#77. I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain; just work harder.

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#78. You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.

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#79. It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand.

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#80. Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude ... Don't complain; just work harder ... Never give up.

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#81. Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you'd suspect, the answer you'll get is, Sure.

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#82. I'm sorry.
It's my fault.
How do I make it right?

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#83. It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.

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#84. There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

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#85. That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." In

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#86. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

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#87. Who remembers that it was Kirk who introduced us to the cell phone?

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#88. If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.

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#89. Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

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#90. All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: We worked hard at it.

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#91. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care. Worry when you do something badly and nobody bothers to tell you.

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#92. Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator.

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#93. We can't change the cards we're dealt, just how we play the hand.

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#94. Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential. The Last Lecture

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#95. The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that's insanity.

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#96. No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

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#97. I don't believe in the no-win scenario

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#98. A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams.

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#99. you're only as good as your word,

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#100. When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

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