Some of my favorite quotes by Randy Pausch :
1. Some brick walls are there for a reason, they let us prove how badly we want things.
2. When you are screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they gave up.
3. If you're going to do anything pioneering, you'll get arrows in the back, and you just have to put up with it.
4. When you've had something for 10 years that you hold so precious, it's the toughest thing in the world to hand it over. The only advice I can give is to find somebody better than you to hand it to.
5. The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self-reflective.
6. The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I've done it my whole career, and the 'head fake' here is that they're learning to program, but they just think they're making movies and video games.
7. Anybody who is out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedroom, as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be okay.
8. 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 have left because there's no other way to play it.
9. Decide if you are a Tiger on an Eeyore.
10. Never lose the childlike wonder.
11. It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
12. Loyalty is a two-way street.
13. When it comes to men that are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
14. Never give up. I didn't get into Brown University; I was on the waitlist. I called them up, and they eventually decided it was getting really annoying to have me call every day, so they let me in. At Carnegie Mellon, I didn't get into graduate school. Andy [my mentor] had said, 'Go to graduate school; you're going to Carnegie Mellon. All my good students go to Carnegie Mellon.' No one knows this until today. I'm telling the story. I was declined admission to Carnegie Mellon, and I went into Andy's office and dropped the rejection letter on his desk. I said, 'I just want you to know what your letter of recommendation goes for at Carnegie Mellon.' Before the letter had hit his desk, his hand was on the phone, and he said, 'I will fix this.
15. 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, being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term—earnest is long term. Apologize when you screw up, and focus on other people, not on yourself.
16. Don’t bail. The best of the gold at the the bottom of the barrel of crap.
17. Get a feedback loop and listen to it. Your feedback loop can be this dorky spreadsheet thing I did, or it can just be one great person who tells you what you need to hear. The hard part is listening to it. Anybody can get chewed out, but it's the rare person who says, 'Oh my God, you're right,' as opposed to, 'No, wait, the real reason is...' We've all heard that. When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
18. Don't complain; just work harder. All right? There's a picture of Jackie Robinson. It was in his contract not to complain, even when the fans spit on him.
19. Work Hard. I got tenure a year earlier. Junior faculty members used to say to me, 'Wow, you got tenure early—what's your secret?' I said, 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock and I'll tell you.
20. Find the best in everybody. One of the things that John Snotty [a colleague] told me is that you might have to wait a long time - sometimes years - but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting. No matter how long it takes, no one is all evil.
21. Be prepared, luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity
22. Did you figure out the head fake? It's not about how to achieve your dreams; it's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and the dreams will come to you.
23. Have you figured out the second head fake? The talk's not for you; it's for my kids. Thank you all. Good night.
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