Randy Pausch Quotes - Page 8

There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

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

Apologies are not pass/fail.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?

And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.