Quotes from Randy Pausch

This student's eyes widened. "I admit it," I told him. "I'm a recovering jerk. And that gives me the moral authority to tell you that you can be a recovering jerk, too." For

I don't believe in no-win situations

Chúng ta không ??i ???c nh?ng quân bài ?ã chia,ch? có th? ??i cách ch?i nh?ng quân bài ?ó.

No Job Is Beneath You

But he made me realize that if I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered). Brick walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them—even if someone has practically had to throw you over—it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

Zidovi od opeka postoje s razlogom. Oni nam daju priliku shvatiti koliko žarko nešto želimo.

But being considered the best speaker in a computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Time is all you have, and you might find one day you have less than what you think

Dac? ai f?cut ceva r?u în rela?ie cu altcineva, e ca ?i cum rela?ia ar suferi de o infec?ie. Iar scuzele adev?rate sunt ca antibioticele; scuzele proaste sunt ca sarea pe ran?.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit . . . and keep moving forward.

We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding. We need to make sure that our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder. Most importantly, we need to let them know how to judge for themselves how they're coming along.

U redu, možda ovo zvu?i malo uvrnuto. Ali ako vaša kanta za sme?e ili ta?ke imaju kakvu ulupinu, ne?ete kupovati nove. Možda je to zato jer vam kante za sme?e i ta?ke ne služe kao simboli socijalnog statusa i identiteta. Za Jai i mene naši su ošte?eni automobili postali potvrda našeg braka. Ne treba se baš sve popraviti.

We don't want to create things that people will want to destroy.

When I was interviewing people to work for me, and I came upon a candidate who had been an Eagle Scout, I'd almost always try to hire him. I

Becoming an Eagle Scout is just about the only thing you can put on your resume at age fifty that you did at age fourteen—and it still impresses. (Despite

I always liked telling my students: "Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.

I mean, I don't know how not to have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there's no other way to play it.

NO MATTER how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better.

The second kind of head fake is the really important one—the one that teaches people things they don't realize they're learning until well into the process.

I kept my mantra in mind: The brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. the brick walls are there to give us chance to show how badly we want something.

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively.

Previše ljudi ide kroz život žale?i se na svoje probleme. Uvijek sam vjerovao da bi se energija koja se troši na pritužbe trebala primijeniti na rješavanje problema i ljudi bi bili iznena?eni poboljšanjem situacije.