"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 donâ€™t want it badly enough. Theyâ€™re there to stop the other people."

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Source : YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

Randy Pausch

#Inspirational Quotes #Strength Quotes #Perseverance Quotes

“When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom â€” freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.”

Source : Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”
“The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“My memory is not even what most peoples is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.”
“Regarding love what can you say? It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It's the quality. On the other hand if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it.”
“Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.”

Source : Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 6, 2003.
“Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.”
“Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.”
“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”

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