Randy Pausch Quotes

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

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..

self-steam ? He knew there was really one way to teach kids how to develop it : You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they can do it, and you keep repeating the process.

We didn't buy much, but we thought about everything.

I’m aware that Chloe may have no memory of me at all. She’s too young. But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her.

"He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strength, whether at work or in relationships, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat," he'd say, "doesn't mean you have to run people over.

"Through the whole ordeal, I don't think we ever said to each other: "This isn't fair." We just kept going. We recognized that there were things we could do that might help the outcome in a positive ways...and we did them. Without saying it in words, our attitude was, "Let's saddle up and ride.

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

As I see it, a parent’s job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help them develop a personal set of tools for the task. So my dreams for my kids are very exact: I want them to find their own path to fulfillment. And given that I won’t be there, I want to make this clear: Kids, don’t try to figure out what I wanted you to become. I want you to become what you want to become.

On April 11, 1945, my father’s infantry company was attacked by German forces, and in the early stages of battle, heavy artillery fire led to eight casualties. According to the citation: “With complete disregard for his own safety, Private Pausch leaped from a covered position and commenced treating the wounded men while shells continued to fall in the immediate vicinity. So successfully did this soldier administer medical attention that all the wounded were evacuated successfully.” In recognition of this, my dad, then twenty-two years old, was issued the Bronze Star for valor. In the fifty years my parents were married, in the thousands of conversations my dad had with me, it had just never come up. And so there I was, weeks after his death, getting another lesson from him about the meaning of sacrifice — and about the power of humility.

Not everything has to be fixed.

The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

Smart isn’t enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone else feel happy to be here.” p118

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

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person any time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term.