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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.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- 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.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- 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.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- 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.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period.
- Steven Conrad, Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
- If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.
- Tina Fey, David Letterman Interview, 2011
- If you are capable people are happy to play with you.
- Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
- You suffer a lot more hiding something than if you face up to it.
- Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
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