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Randy Pausch on Retirement

1960–2008 United States

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12 quotes

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."

The Last Lecture (2008)

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

The Last Lecture (2007)

Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

Time Management (2007)

Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.

Time Management (2007)

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have."

The Last Lecture (2008)

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think."

The Last Lecture (2008)

You don’t find time for important things, you make it.

Time Management (2007)

Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.

The Last Lecture (2008)

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but 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're born and the time he shows up.

CMU Graduation speech (2008)

Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone, maybe at home. Find your dead time. Schedule meetings, phone calls, and mundane stuff during it.

Time Management (2007)

Don't complain; just work harder.

The Last Lecture (2007)

Find the best in everybody. … 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. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

The Last Lecture (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Randy Pausch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.