I finally settled down and listen to Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture”. Yu Xuan introduced me the book but I didn’t really read it, until recently, I have starting doing my English project. The head fake is more important then succeeding. Here are some quotes by Randy that inspired me. (:
“It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.”
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!"
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, I'm sorry to disappoint you.”
“Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcomed.”
“When you see yourself doing
something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your
critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.”“experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”
“Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.”
“It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.”
“when you’re pissed off at somebody and you’re
angry at them, you just haven’t given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they’ll almost always impress you.”“If you’re going to do anything that pioneering you will get those arrows in the back, and you just have to put up with it. I mean everything that could go wrong did go wrong. But at the end of the day, a whole lot of people had a whole lot of fun. When you’ve had something for ten years that you hold so precious, it’s the toughest thing in the world to hand it over. And the only advice I can give you is, find somebody better than you to hand it to.”
“The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.”
“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.”
“How do you get people to help you? You can’t get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest. I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.”
“Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.”
“Get a feedback loop and listen to it. Your feedback loop can be this dorky spreadsheet thing I did, or it can just be one great man who tells you what you need to hear. The hard part is the listening to it.”
“When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.”
“Show gratitude.”
“Don’t complain. Just work harder.”
“Be good at something, it makes you valuable.”
“Work hard.”
“Find the best in everybody.”
“You 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.”
“Never lose the child-like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us.”
“You get people to help you by telling the truth; by being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.”
“And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.”
“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.”
“Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.”
All these quotes sounds simple, but they didn’t come by so easily. These were lessons learnt from Randy’s life experience.
