Randy Pausch quotes - page 4

You get people to help you by telling the truth; by being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term. (Randy Pausch)

I think he's absolutely right on that one.

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I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.

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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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Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

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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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I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

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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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The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

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The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to. (Randy Pausch)

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

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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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Your passion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside.

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You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere.

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You will need find your passion.

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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.

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Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone.

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And these are the kind of things that I think everybody ought to be doing. Helping others.

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Find your passion and follow it.

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And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun. (Randy Pausch)

My dad was so full of life, anything with him was an adventure.

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So what is today's talk about then? It's about my childhood dreams and how I've achieved them.

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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

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