Randy Pausch
American computer scientist and author of The Last Lecture, 1960-2008
20 quotes.
Quotes by Randy Pausch
- A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
- Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!
- Complaining does not work as a strategy.
- Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.
- Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.
- Dream Big. Dream without fear.
- Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
- Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
- If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, “tell the truth.”
- It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
- It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.
- People are more important than things.
- Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.
- The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
- Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.
- Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.
- When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.
- You don’t find time for important things, you make it.
- You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.
- You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.