The Last Lecture Quotes

“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”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“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.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“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.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“As I see it, 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 them develop a personal set of tools for the task. So my dreams for my kids are very exact: I want them to find their own path to fulfillment. And given that I won’t be there, I want to make this clear: Kids, don’t try to figure out what I wanted you to become. I want you to become what you want to become. Having”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“If you wait long enough,” he said, “people will surprise and impress you.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“[My mother] saw it as part of her mission to keep my cockiness in check. I'm grateful for that now...We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“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.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“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.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“كان أبي يقول لي : إياك والتلاعب عندما تتبوأ من القوة مكانا سواء كان ذلك في عملك او في علاقاتك”
― راندي بوتش, المحاضرة الأخيرة

“ امتاز خيالي دوما بالجموح الذي يصعب احتواؤه واتسم بالعقلانية ".”
― راندي بوتش, المحاضرة الأخيرة

“bila kau melakukan sesuatu yang buruk, tetapi sudah tidak ada lagi yang mau memberitahukannya kepadamu, berarti kamu sudah diabaikan dan tidak berarti”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Brick walls are not there to keep us out, they are there to show us how much we want something.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“المرء إن لم يستطع تحقيق حلمه فقد يدفعه مجرد الحلم إلى الأفضل”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture - Lessons In Living

“On April 11, 1945, my father’s infantry company was attacked by German forces, and in the early stages of battle, heavy artillery fire led to eight casualties. According to the citation: “With complete disregard for his own safety, Private Pausch leaped from a covered position and commenced treating the wounded men while shells continued to fall in the immediate vicinity. So successfully did this soldier administer medical attention that all the wounded were evacuated successfully.” In recognition of this, my dad, then twenty-two years old, was issued the Bronze Star for valor. 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.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“We didn't buy much, but we thought about everything.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Not everything has to be fixed.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“I've found that a substantial fraction of many people’s days is spent
worrying about what others think of them. If nobody ever worried
about what was in other people’s heads, we’d all be 33 percent more
effective in our lives and on our jobs.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person any time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“هناك العديد من الأشخاص دائمي الشكوى من المشاكل في حياتهم ، و أنا اعتقد أنهم لو سخروا عشر هذه الطاقة التي يستنفذونها في الشكوى واستعان وا بها في حل مشاكلهم ، لحقوا نجاحا مبهرا في حل تلك المشاكل.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“kita tidak bisa mengubah kartu yang dibagikan kepada kita, hanya bagaimana cara kita memainkan”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“If you wait long enough,” he said, “people will surprise and impress you.” As he saw things: When you’re frustrated with people, when they’ve made you angry, it just may be because you haven’t given them enough time. Jon warned me that sometimes this took great patience— even years. “But in the end,” he said, “people will show you their good side. Almost everybody has a good side. Just keep waiting. It will come out.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Don’t Obsess Over What People Think”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Time must be explicitly managed, like money.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture