Look for the best in everybody Randy Pausch More Quotes by Randy Pausch More Quotes From Randy Pausch Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you Randy Pausch menlifebelieve A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task. Randy Pausch familydreamjobs Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you. Randy Pausch last-lecturelooksway I've always admired people who are over-prepared. Randy Pausch preparedpeople No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything? Randy Pausch proofmailjobs The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn. Randy Pausch teachingnumbersteacher People are more important than things. Randy Pausch last-lectureimportantpeople One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. Randy Pausch worst-case-scenarioriskmanagement People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort. Randy Pausch effortlyingpeople Never make a decision until you have to. Randy Pausch decision You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest. Randy Pausch karmabelievepeople The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story. Randy Pausch strongwritingbook If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds. Randy Pausch twocultureworld Tradition, history and respect; that kind of qualities I admire, that I want to see preserved. Time is the only commodity that matters. Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well; managing your time well makes you successful. Goals, Priorities, and Planning. Why am I doing this? What is the goal? Why will I succeed? What happen if I chose not to do it? 'Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement'. Randy Pausch designgoalsuccessful But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle. Randy Pausch growing-upfalling-in-lovedaughter What he said was: "You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere." And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere. Randy Pausch barsadviceboys If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? Randy Pausch legacytomorrowwant 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 Randy Pausch rare-personreasonwaiting I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen. Randy Pausch parentkidsneeds 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 childhood-dreamslast-lectureimportant
