April 2013
9 posts
“When we’re connected to others, we become better people.”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“If I could only give three words of advice, they would be “tell the...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. And...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit…and keep...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“‘It took a long time, but I’ve finally figured it out. When it comes...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Meet people properly: It all starts with the introduction. Exchange contact information. Make sure you can pronounce everyone’s names.
Find things you have in common: You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it’s much easier to address issues where you have differences. Sports cut across boundaries of race and wealth. Ad if nothing else,...
“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I’ve...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
March 2013
10 posts
“In the end, educators best serve students by helping them be more...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Here’s what I know:
Time must be explicitly managed, like money. My students would sometimes roll their eyes at what they called “Pauschisms,” but I stand by them. Urging students not to invest time on irrelevant details, I’d tell them: “It doesn’t matter how well you polish the underside of the banister.”
You can always change your plan, but only if...
“We just kept going. We recognized that there were things we could do that might...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“The brick walls are there for a reason. They’re not there to keep us out....”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“Tenacity is a virtue, but it’s not always crucial for everyone to observe...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“My dad gave me advice on how to negotiate my way through life. He’d warn...”
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
February 2013
1 post
Ingredient Labels and Nutrition Facts: Why You... →
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January 2013
1 post
“It is important to note here that speciesism is part of the greater problem of exploitation of both human and non-human animals. In any kind of baseless discrimination, there is necessarily a common form of “othering” going on in which the person being discriminated against is considered to be less than the person who’s doing the discriminating. The racist assumes the...
December 2012
17 posts
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Happiness is a hard master—-particularly other people’s happiness. A...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“We have our stability to think of. We don’t want to change. Every change...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly——they’ll go...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Did you ever feel as though you had something inside you that was only waiting...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“If you can wake up in a different place.
If you can wake up in a different...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“There are a lot of things we don’t want to know about the people we love.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“What Marla loves, she says, is all the things that people love intensely and...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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“A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things.
A lot...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Till this moment, I never knew myself.”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed....”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the...”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
October 2012
4 posts
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well....”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“These days you are considered a weirdo if you live without a phone. Yet nobody...”
– Ray N. Kuili, Awakening
“Maybe you’ll come to know that every man in every generation is re-fired....”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“I don’t know whether I can accept things or not. I’ve never had a...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
September 2012
30 posts
“Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“A few are women from the moment they’re born. Abra has the loveliness of...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“We’re a violent people. Does it seem strange to you that I include myself?...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden 