A Quote by Randy Pausch

You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.

Randy Pausch

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Randy Pausch
American - Educator
October 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

Malcolm Turnbull

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Randy Pausch

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

Randy Pausch

Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

John C. Maxwell

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

Steve Alten

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Randy Pausch

You get dealt a hand and you play those cards the best you can.

Chris Soules

Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.

Charles M. Schulz

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

Milton H. Erickson

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

Jamie Lynn Spears

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

Diane Chamberlain

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

Pharrell Williams

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

Anna Brackett

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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