Top 250 Randy Pausch Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Cuando cometes errores y nadie te lo indica, significa que ya se han dado por vencidos contigo.”

— Randy Pausch

152. “Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don’t need to be alive for that to happen.”

— Randy Pausch

153. “Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you’d suspect, the answer you’ll get is, “Sure.”

— Randy Pausch

154. “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

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

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

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158. “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

159. “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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160. “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

161. “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.”

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162. “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.”

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

— Randy Pausch

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

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165. “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

166. “Please don’t die.”

— Randy Pausch

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

— Randy Pausch

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

— Randy Pausch

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

— Randy Pausch

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

— Randy Pausch

171. “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

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

— Randy Pausch

173. “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.”

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

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

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176. “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.”

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

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178. “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

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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.”

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182. “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.”

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183. “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?”

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184. “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

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

— Randy Pausch

186. “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

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

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189. “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

190. “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.”

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

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192. “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

193. “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.”

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194. “Somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do.”

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195. “Don’t finish someone’s sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn’t make your idea any better.”

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196. “But Andy van Dam, my “Dutch uncle” and mentor at Brown, advised me, “Get yourself a PhD. Be a professor.” “Why should I do that?” I asked him. And he said: “Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education.” I am.”

— Randy Pausch

197. “We’ve placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people’s rights. That’s how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities. Rights have to come from somewhere, and they come from the community. In return, all of us have a responsibility to the community. Some people call this the ‘communitarian’ movement, but I call it common sense.”

— Randy Pausch

198. “Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.”

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

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200. “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