Randy Pausch
I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?Collection: Sorry
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.Collection: Fashion
Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.Collection: Real
Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.Collection: Real
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.Collection: Hard Work
He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.Collection: Rage
To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.Collection: Home
until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field workCollection: Ice Cream
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.Collection: Dream
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 educationCollection: Use
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.Collection: Patience
Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’tCollection: Lying
I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.Collection: Long
Develop a good filing system.Collection: Filing
Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor.Collection: Thinking
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!Collection: Perseverance
There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.Collection: Done
It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~JaiCollection: Helpful
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.Collection: Dream
The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.Collection: Jobs
Apologies are not pass/fail.Collection: Apology
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.Collection: Attitude
Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.Collection: Trying
Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?Collection: Tigger
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.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Couple
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.Collection: Beach
The size of your audience doesn’t matter. What’s important is that your audience is listening.Collection: Listening
I feel like I’m waiting on something that isn’t going to happen Don’t complain; just work harder.Collection: Complaining
It’s a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.Collection: Fun
Take Time Out. It’s not a real vacation if you’re reading email or calling in for messages.Collection: Reading
I’m dying, and I’m having fun.Collection: Fun
Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It’s a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don’t read. In truth, I wish you’d read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.Collection: Book
Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I’m dying and I’m having fun. And I’m going to keep having fun every day because there’s no other way to play it.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Country