Randy Pausch: "Advice is very easy to give, and even..."

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Randolph Frederick Pausch () (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

—Randy Pausch

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.

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The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

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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.

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It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

—Publilius Syrus

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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

—Pierre Charron

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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

—Hannah Whitall Smith

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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

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Never give advice unless asked.

—German Proverb

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Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

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