Quotes from Randy Pausch

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

El que ha fracasado sabe cómo evitar futuros fracasos.

Don't finish someone's sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn't make your idea any better.

Now matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse

people will show you their good side. Almost everybody has a good side. Just keep waiting. It will come out.

but he just keeps showing up in my head, forcing me to work harder whenever I feel like quitting, forcing me to be better.

It's easy to look smart when you're parroting smart people.)

Filing in alphabetical order is better than running around and saying, 'I know it was blue and I was eating something when I had it.

Dance with the one who brung you.

I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

It just proves that if you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

El trabajo duro es como el interés compuesto de los bancos. La recompensa se acumula más rápido.

The sane universities never went near this stuff, but Carnegie Mellon gave us explicit license to break the mold.

Failure is not just acceptable, it's essential.

Meet people properly: It all starts with the introduction

S HOWING GRATITUDE is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Almost everybody has a good side.

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.

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster. The same is true in your life outside of your job.

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

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

Zašto mi je taj govor bio toliko važan? Jesam li time želio pokazati sebi i drugima da sam još i te kako živ? Da još uvijek imam snagu za nastup? Je li to možda želja nekoga tko voli javnu pozornost da odigra posljednju predstavu? Odgovori su bili potvrdni. — Ranjeni lav želi doznati može li još uvijek rikati - rekao sam Ja. - Radi se o dostojanstvu i samopoštovanju, a to nije isto što i taština.

I've often carried a crayon in my shirt pocket. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and I take another hit.

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