Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

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Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

Randy Pausch

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Experience, Funny, Investing, Life

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

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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. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

Enough, Give, Inspirational, Perseverance, Show, Strength

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

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Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

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

Bed, Life, Regret, Things

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Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

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Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

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One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.

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Hugh Leonard

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

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