Top 100 Quotes About Randy Pausch
#2. 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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#3. If you have a question, then find the answer.
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#4. If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.
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#5. Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.
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#6. Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.
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#7. Never lose the child like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us. Help others.
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#8. When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.
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#9. 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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#11. The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.
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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is ... We've all heard that
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#17. Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.
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#18. Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.
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#19. The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.
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#21. 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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#22. Brick walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them - even if someone has practically had to throw you over - it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.
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#23. But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.
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#24. 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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#25. She told us she could see the great respect between us,
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#26. You've got to get the fundamentals down, because otherwise the fancy stuff is not going to work.
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#27. Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.
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#28. A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
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#29. I had fallen in love, even if she was still finding her way.
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#30. If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.
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#31. 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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#32. Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.
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#33. 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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#36. You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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#37. 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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#38. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.
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#39. Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.
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#40. I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
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#41. No matter how bad the circumstance it could always be worse.
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#42. Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.
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#43. If you wait long enough," he said, "people will surprise and impress you.
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#44. 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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#45. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.
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#46. It makes no sense to talk about people's rights without also talking about responsibilities. The Last Lecture
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#47. Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
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#50. We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
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#51. 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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#52. If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).
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#53. Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
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#54. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
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#55. Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.
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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened.
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#60. I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.
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#61. If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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#63. 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.
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#65. Time must be explicitly managed, like money.
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#66. The questions are always more important than the answers.
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#67. Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
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#69. When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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#70. Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
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#71. I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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#73. Though I am not a fan of TV - it's mankind's greatest time-waster, the gift was completely appropriate, since I'll be in bed so much at the end. TV will be one of my last links to the outside world.
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#74. No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?
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#75. Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.
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#77. I mean, I don't know how not to have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there's no other way to play it.
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#78. My coach knew there was only one way to develop (self esteem): You give children something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.
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#79. There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
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#80. I've always admired people who are over-prepared.
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#81. Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.
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#82. 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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#83. Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't need to be alive for that to happen.
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#84. 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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#85. Get a feedback loop and listen to it ... When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
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#86. There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.
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#87. Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.
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#88. Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.
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#89. Don't finish someone's sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn't make your idea any better.
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#90. There's a formality in academia that can't be ignored, even if a man is busy with other things, like trying not to die.
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#91. We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here's my mother, figuring "alert" ought to suffice as a compliment.
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#92. I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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#94. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.
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#95. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
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#96. Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it
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#97. 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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#98. Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded
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#99. Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
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#100. Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.
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