http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
The book:
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/1401323251/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322853654&sr=8-1
I've watched the video before, shortly after I listened to the book on tape when I was just applying to graduate school. It popped in to my head yesterday, I've been having a stressful week (month), and have been battling feeling of depression and burnout. I remembered that he had a quote about brick walls that I really liked. I had written it down at the time, and pined it up in my office, but it got lost in a move somewhere along the line and I forgot about it until recently. I wanted to find it again, and stick it somewhere that I could see it, and remind myself that all this hard work is FOR something.
When searching for quotes from the book or the lecture I found this Blog that had a good collection of them.
"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."
This is the quote I had originally gone looking for. I've enjoyed scrolling through many of the others quotes and have made notes about some I may want to include on inspirational note cards in the future.
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