Top 250 Randy Pausch Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you’d suspect, the answer you’ll get is, “Sure.”

— Randy Pausch

152. “There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.”

— Randy Pausch

153. “If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.”

— Randy Pausch

154. “There’s a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It’s not something you can give; it’s something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can’t do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.”

— Randy Pausch

155. “Many people might expect the talk to be about dying. But it had to be about living.”

— Randy Pausch

156. “When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you’re working at the margins. When you’re putting people on the moon, you’re inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.”

— Randy Pausch

157. “Hal yang kau perlu lakukan dalam menghadapi pria : Abaikan semua yang mereka katakan dan perhatikan semua yang mereka lakukan. Itu akan membantumu mengurangi kesalahan besar...”

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158. “The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.”

— Randy Pausch

159. “When you’re putting people on the moon, you’re inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.”

— Randy Pausch

160. “I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.”

— Randy Pausch

161. “Though I am not a fan of TV – it’s mankind’s greatest time-waster, the gift was completely appropriate, since I’ll be in bed so much at the end. TV will be one of my last links to the outside world.”

— Randy Pausch

162. “It’s easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.”

— Randy Pausch

163. “If you want something badly enough, do not give up!”

— Randy Pausch

164. “Go on those trips you’ve always wanted to take,” the woman advised other care-givers. “Live in the moment.”

— Randy Pausch

165. “Please don’t die.”

— Randy Pausch

166. “I had fallen in love, even if she was still finding her way.”

— Randy Pausch

167. “I didn’t know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.”

— Randy Pausch

168. “We didn’t buy much, but we thought about everything.”

— Randy Pausch

169. “If you wait long enough,” he said, “people will surprise and impress you.”

— Randy Pausch

170. “When we send our kids to play organized sports – football, soccer, swimming, whatever – for most of us, it’s not because we’re desperate for them to learn the intricacies of the sport. What we really want them to learn is far more important: teamwork, perseverance, sportsmanship, the value of hard work, an ability to deal with adversity. This kind of indirect learning is what some of us like to call a “head fake.” There.”

— Randy Pausch

171. “I don’t suffer from an abundance of politeness.”

— Randy Pausch

172. “I F I could only give three words of advice, they would be “tell the truth.”

— Randy Pausch

173. “I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they’re given the resources.”

— Randy Pausch

174. “When they talk of building self-esteem, they often resort to empty flattery rather than character-building honesty. I’ve heard so many people talk of downward spiral in our educational system, and I think one key factor is that there is too much stroking and too littke real feedback.”

— Randy Pausch

175. “This student’s eyes widened. “I admit it,” I told him. “I’m a recovering jerk. And that gives me the moral authority to tell you that you can be a recovering jerk, too.” For.”

— Randy Pausch

176. “They were thinking: “I don’t know who this guy is, but I’m definitely coming to class tomorrow to check out his next stunt.” I sure got their attention. That’s always the first step to solving an ignored problem.”

— Randy Pausch

177. “The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.”

— Randy Pausch

178. “Fear turned to awe when I met my coach, Jim Graham, a hulking, six-foot-four wall-of-a-guy. He had been a line-backer at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play. On.”

— Randy Pausch

179. “That meant when I wasn’t happy about something, I spoke up, often directly and not always tactfully.”

— Randy Pausch

180. “Sometimes all you have to do is ask and it leads to all your dreams coming true. Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you’d suspect, the answer you get is, “Sure.”

— Randy Pausch

181. “The second kind of head fake is the really important one – the one that teaches people things they don’t realize they’re learning until well into the process.”

— Randy Pausch

182. “Watch What They Do, Not What They Say.”

— Randy Pausch

183. “THIS IS beautiful advice that I got once from Jon Snoddy, my hero at Disney Imagineering. I just was so taken with the way he put it. “If you wait long enough,” he said, “people will surprise and impress you.” As he saw things: When you’re frustrated with people, when they’ve made you angry, it just may be because you haven’t given them enough time.”

— Randy Pausch

184. “I mean, I don’t know how not to have fun. I’m dying and I’m having fun. And I’m going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there’s no other way to play it.”

— Randy Pausch

185. “It was a hot summer night, and I had the soundtrack to Disney’s The Lion King blasting on my stereo. Tears actually began streaming down my face as I drove past the building. Here I was, the grown-up version of that wide-eyed eight-year-old at Disneyland. I had finally arrived. I was an Imagineer.”

— Randy Pausch

186. “Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things?”

— Randy Pausch

187. “Two decades later, when I got my PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, I thought that made me infinitely qualified to do anything, so I dashed off my letters of application to Walt Disney Imagineering. And they sent me the nicest go-to-hell letter I’d ever received.”

— Randy Pausch

188. “I’ve also collected techniques for keeping unnecessary calls shorter. If I’m sitting while on the phone, I never put my feet up. In fact, it’s better to stand when you’re on the phone. You’re more apt to speed things along. I also like to have something in view on my desk that I want to do, so I have the urge to wrap things up with the caller.”

— Randy Pausch

189. “If other people owe you an apology, and your words of apology to them are proper and heartfelt, you still may not hear from them for a while. After all, what are the odds that they get to the right emotional place to apologize at the exact moment you do?”

— Randy Pausch

190. “You can’t get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest. I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person any day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.”

— Randy Pausch

191. “I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids – more than anything else – need to know their parents love them. Their parents don’t have to be alive for that to happen.”

— Randy Pausch

192. “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted... It’s a phrase worth considering at every brick wall we encounter, and at every disappointment. It’s also a reminder that failure is not just acceptable, it’s often essential.”

— Randy Pausch

193. “Even if the scan results are bad tomorrow,” I had told her, “I just want you to know that it feels great to be alive, and to be here today, alive with you. Whatever news we get about the scans, I’m not going to die when we hear it. I won’t die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much I’m enjoying it.”

— Randy Pausch

194. “When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.”

— Randy Pausch

195. “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

— Randy Pausch

196. “Sports cut across boundaries of race and wealth.”

— Randy Pausch

197. “Halfhearted or insincere apologies are often worse than not apologizing at all because recipients find them insulting.”

— Randy Pausch

198. “So it’s OK that I won’t set foot in the Promised Land. It’s still a wonderful sight.”

— Randy Pausch

199. “I know you’re smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn’t enough.”

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200. “We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here’s my mother, figuring “alert” ought to suffice as a compliment.”

— Randy Pausch