Randy Pausch Last Lecture Quotes & Sayings

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible. — Randy Pausch

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care. — Randy Pausch

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. — Randy Pausch

book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, — Will Schwalbe

Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential. The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch

We are living in a new ice age, and we need to apply the recipes of the Cold War to the Kremlin. That means isolation instead of offers of negotiation. And Ukraine should have been supplied with weapons long ago. — Garry Kasparov

My life ... HARD to explain..but EASY to live.. — Gayan Fonseka

'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings but have an entirely different and debased idea of what's funny. — Richard Corliss

People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves for the injustice of the present by smearing the future inside them with this shit. They're cowards deep down, and just. That's their nature. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It felt as if they'd crossed a bridge a second before it collapsed. — Lauren Groff

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer. — Randy Pausch

The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit. — Buzz Aldrin

Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22). He's joking about the fact that Ireland wanted to be connected to continental Europe but ended up being extremely isolated. — James Joyce

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical. — Randy Pausch

He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees, and autumn. — Elizabeth Enright

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. — Randy Pausch

It makes no sense to talk about people's rights without also talking about responsibilities. The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch

With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations. — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

Focus on other people, not on yourself. — Randy Pausch

So what's the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn't matter why or when or how. — John Fante

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening. — Randy Pausch

You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore. — Randy Pausch

I don't believe in the no-win scenario — Randy Pausch