Last Lecture By Randy Pausch Quotes

#1. Shy people might take their doses of companionship like an ill-tasting medicine, but they need it, and they suffer a thousand maladies, physical and mental, if they don't have it.

Orson Scott Card

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Will Schwalbe

#3. All she could do now was run . . . and figure out how to defeat an Excisioner who couldn't be killed.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#4. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Randy Pausch

#5. Many are called, few are chosen.

Paul Hoffman

#6. When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

Randy Pausch

#7. The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Haruki Murakami

#8. It makes no sense to talk about people's rights without also talking about responsibilities. The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

#9. 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

#10. Focus on other people, not on yourself.

Randy Pausch

#11. You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.

Helen Keller

#12. I, too, would find out that old age is a brute, ferocious beast.

Elena Ferrante

#13. Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

Gregory Maguire

#14. It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

William F. Buckley Jr.

#15. What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Jimmy Webb

#16. The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.

Shinzo Abe

#17. 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

#18. Always go as far as you can see, then let faith take you the rest of the way.

Seth Adam Smith

#19. Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

Randy Pausch

#20. You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.

Randy Pausch

#21. 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

#22. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

Randy Pausch

#23. Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential. The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

#24. I don't believe in the no-win scenario

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#25. Tell me a story then ... keep me occupied."
"A story? ... What makes you think I can tell a story?"
"Insight," said the king, "Go on.

Megan Whalen Turner