"If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'"

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Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

Randy Pausch

#Honesty Quotes #Giving Quotes #Advice Quotes

“You're no better than Sharpclaw and Sparrowpelt. They look down their noses at us because we stay loyal to our housefolk as well as our Clan. I thought you were different, Leafstar, but I was wrong”
“Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.”
“We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful â€” little animals, clawing at what we needed.”

Source : Justin Torres (2012). “We the Animals”, p.45, Granta Books
“After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from homeâ€” sheâ€™d actually done it.”
“Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give them the hint that you're a winner so they believe they've made a good investment. It's simple common sense...”
“If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.”
“There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was "style" and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a "style" that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators.”
“It is always the unreadable that occurs.”

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