Quotes from Randy Pausch

you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Fear turned to awe when I met my coach, Jim Graham, a hulking, six-foot-four wall-of-a-guy. He had been a line-backer at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play. On

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.

In the end, educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse? Some

Lucky" is a strange word to use to describe my situation, but a part of me does feel fortunate that I didn't get hit by the proverbial bus. Cancer has given me the time to have these vital conversations with Jai that wouldn't be possible if my fate were a heart attack or a car accident.

I let the slide linger, so the audience could follow the arrows and count my tumors. "All right," I said. "That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Pleši s onim tko te pozvao. Taj klišej koji su mi roditelji ?esto ponavljali ne odnosi se samo na maturalnu ve?er. On bi trebao biti mantra u poslovnim i akademskim krugovima, ali i u ku?i. On nas podsje?a na lojalnost i poštovanje.

Iskustvo je ono što dobiješ kada ne dobiješ ono što želiš. Iskustvo je tako?er najvrjednija stvar koju možeš ponuditi.

When we send our kids to play organized sports—football, soccer, swimming, whatever—for most of us, it's not because we're desperate for them to learn the intricacies of the sport. What we really want them to learn is far more important: teamwork, perseverance, sportsmanship, the value of hard work, an ability to deal with adversity. This kind of indirect learning is what some of us like to call a "head fake." There

it's a better mindset to help me get through each day.

Ne želim napustiti Tigra u meni. Ne mogu ni zamisliti da se pretvaram u Sivka. Netko me upitao kakav bih natpis želio na nadgrobnoj plo?i. - Randy Pausch: živio je trideset godina nakon terminalne dijagnoze - odgovorio sam. Vjerujte mi da bih u tih trideset godina unio mnogo veselja. Ali ako to ne može biti, onda ?u to veselje unijeti u sve što sada radim.

Svake ve?eri, kad prije spavanja upitam Logana koji mu je bio najbolji dio dana, uvijek odgovori: »Igra s Dylanom.« Kada upitam koji mu je bio najgori dio dana, on opet odgovori: »Igra s Dylanom.« To dovoljno govori koliko su povezani kao bra?a.

Tenacity got me over the brick wall.

Svjestan sam da Chloe ne?e imati nikakvih sje?anja na mene. Još je premala. Ali ja bih želio da odraste znaju?i da sam bio prvi muškarac koji se u nju zaljubio.

There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened.

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.

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

Here was a woman, having a child by accident that she surely would come to love. As for me, through the accident of cancer I'd be leaving three children to grow up without my love.

la modernidad existe solo a corto plazo. La seriedad es a largo plazo.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.

We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here's my mother, figuring "alert" ought to suffice as a compliment.

Andy, I just gave my students a two-week assignment and they came back and did stuff that, had I given them an entire semester to complete it, I would have given them all A's. What do I do?" Andy thought for a minute and said: "OK. Here's what you do. Go back into class tomorrow, look them in the eyes and say, 'Guys, that was pretty good, but I know you can do better.

The same is true in your life outside of your job. 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.