Quotes from Randy Pausch

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

I love all three of my kids completely and differently. And I want them to know that I will love them for as long as they live. I will.

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

Though I am not a fan of TV - it's mankind's greatest time-waster, the gift was completely appropriate, since I'll be in bed so much at the end. TV will be one of my last links to the outside world.

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work

Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator.

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.

If you've done something wrong in your dealings with another person, it's as if there's an infection in your relationship. A good apology is like an antibiotic ; a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

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.

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

bila kau melakukan sesuatu yang buruk, tetapi sudah tidak ada lagi yang mau memberitahukannya kepadamu, berarti kamu sudah diabaikan dan tidak berarti

Not everything has to be fixed.

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.

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.

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..

kadang yang perlu kita lakukan hanyalah bertanya dan itu mungkin membuat semua impian terwujud

If other people owe you an apology, and your words of apology to them are proper and heartfelt, you still may not hear from them for a while. After all, what are the odds that they get to the right emotional place to apologize at the exact moment you do? So just be patient. Many times in my career, I saw students apologize, and then several days later, their teammates came around. Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded.

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.

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.

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

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

kita tidak bisa mengubah kartu yang dibagikan kepada kita, hanya bagaimana cara kita memainkan

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

Brick walls are not there to keep us out, they are there to show us how much we want something.