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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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  Next Day, Needs, News

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• To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.

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  Home, Blessing, Use

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• Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

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  Last Lecture, Be Good, Valuable

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

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  Hard Work, Needs, Students

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain; just work harder.

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  Hard Work, Waiting, Complaining

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• Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?

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  Tigger

  "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch's last lecture at the university before a packed McConomy Auditorium, www.youtube.com. September 18, 2007.

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• I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

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  Long, Hips, Last Lecture

  "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch's last lecture at McConomy Auditorium of Carnegie Mellon University, www.youtube.com. September 18, 2007.

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• It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

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  Helpful, Tomorrow, Ifs

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.158, Hachette UK

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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.

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  Dream, Thinking, Nfl

  "The last lecture".

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• Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

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  Thinking, One Day, May

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• I don't believe in the no-win scenario

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  Believe, Winning, Don't Believe

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field work

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  Ice Cream, Ice, Fields

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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.

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  Couple, Long, Together

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• The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

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  Jobs, College, Mirrors

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor.

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  Thinking, Worst Case Scenario, Cases

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

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  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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