Quotes About The Last Lecture

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

Randy Pausch

#2. 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

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

Randy Pausch

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Will Schwalbe

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

Randy Pausch

#6. Have the humility to learn from those around you.

John C. Maxwell

#7. Hatred could not be the basis of her resolution to fight. It provided no access to her own qi, her vital spirit. That was the deepest truth she knew about fighting. It's what she learned from her father and Sensei: fight from the peaceful place inside, from her father's place.

Jacques Antoine

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

Randy Pausch

#9. I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war - which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races - to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!

James McKeen Cattell

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

Randy Pausch

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

Randy Pausch

#12. As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.

Jim Doyle

#13. 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

#14. I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.

Orson Pratt

#15. I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

Rob Brydon

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

Randy Pausch

#17. 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

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

Randy Pausch

#19. My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Seamus Heaney

#20. What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.

Nathan Seiberg

#21. Trey scoffed. "Between you and me, Brayden's probably the last guy in the world you have to worry about. I think he's as clueless as you are. If I didn't care about your virtue so much, I'd actually probably give him a lecture on 'how' to try something." -Trey, pg. 70

Richelle Mead

#22. I know what it is the way a child knows flying from watching a bird.

Pierce Brown

#23. Irish girls, red hair,' I replied, remembering a picture of them from Mrs. Casnoff's 'People Who Want to Kill Us All' lecture at Hex Hall last year.

Rachel Hawkins

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

Randy Pausch

#25. I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

Parker Young