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The Last Lecture (2008)
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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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If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.
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There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.
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A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.
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Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.
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Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcomed.
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Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.
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It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow.
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The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
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And the course was all about bonding. People used to say, you know, what's going to make for a good world? I said, I can't tell you beforehand, but right before they present it I can tell you if the world's good just by the body language. If they're standing close to each other, the world is good.
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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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It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.
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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. He said, when you are pissed off at somebody, and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time — and they'll almost always impress you. And that really stuck with me. I think he's absolutely right on that one.
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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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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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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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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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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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The questions are always more important than the answers.
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The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.
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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'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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He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.
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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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Let other people finish their sentences when they're talking.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
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Born:
October 23, 1960
Died:
July 25, 2008
(aged 47)
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