Quotes by Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won’t.

Coaches

Kids

Thinking

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A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

Antibiotics

Apology

Salt

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A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

Determination

Hard Work

Success

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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.

Dream

Family

Jobs

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

Advice

Fool

Giving

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All my adult life I’ve felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: “We worked hard at it.

Couple

Long

Together

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An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

Lions

Stills

Want

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And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

Dream

Nfl

Thinking

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Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I’m a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it ‘the eaten by wolves factor.’ If I do something, what’s the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don’t worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

Attitude

Optimistic

Thinking

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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

Rare Person

Reason

Waiting

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