Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
Randy PauschThe great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professorโs job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.
Randy PauschThe 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 PauschI am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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