Source: The Last Lecture (2008), Chapter 32: Don't Complain, Just Work Harder, p. 139
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The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture is a New York Times best-selling book co-authored by Randy Pausch—a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—and Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal. The book speaks on a lecture Pausch gave in September 2007 entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams".
Quoting a CMU secretary
The Last Lecture (2007)
Source: The Last Lecture (2008), Chapter 39: Be the First Penguin, p. 149
“When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
“You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.”
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Variant: And he put his arm around my shoulders and we went for a little walk and he said, Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life. What a hell of a way to word “you’re being a jerk.” [laughter] Right? He doesn’t say you’re a jerk. He says people are perceiving you this way and he says the downside is it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish.
When Pausch spoke of "when you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they gaveup." he was quoting an assistant coach of football coach James Graham
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Source: The Last Lecture (2008), Chapter 46: All You Have Is What You Bring With You, p. 160
“Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.”
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