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Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy 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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It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!
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When told by a female colleague about how a girl can pick the right guy, she said... "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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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
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If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we'd all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.
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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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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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Whatever news we get about the scans, I'm not going to die when we hear it. I won't die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much I'm enjoying it. I thought about that, and about Jai's smile. I knew then. That's the way the rest of my life would need to be lived.
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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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So what is today's talk about then? It's about my childhood dreams and how I've achieved them — I've been very fortunate that way; how I believe I've been able to enable the dreams of others, and to some degree, lessons learned: I'm a professor — there should be some lessons learned — and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable 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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He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.
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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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You've got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work.
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The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.
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The questions are always more important than the answers.
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Because you're such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they're going to use you as a salesman. If you're going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, "tell the truth." If I got three more words, I'd add: "All the time."
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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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It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. I assure you I've done a lot of really stupid things, and none of them bother me. All the mistakes, and all the dopey things, and all the times I was embarrassed — they don't matter. What matters is that I can kind of look back and say: Pretty much any time I got chance to do something cool I tried to grab for it — and that's where my solace comes from.
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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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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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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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Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.
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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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Born:
October 23, 1960
Died:
July 25, 2008
(aged 47)
Bio:
Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch was an American professor of computer science, human computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Known for:
The Last Lecture (2008)
Time Management (2008)
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