The Last Lecture Quotes

“...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

“It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“a parent’s job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“When you’re frustrated with people, when they’ve made you angry, it just may be because you haven’t given them enough time.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“When you’re putting people on the moon, you’re inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Kada sam ga upitao kada ću umrijeti, on je odgovorio da ću vjerojatno biti prilično zdrav sljedećih tri do šest mjeseci. To me podsjetilo na moje posjete Disneylandu. Kada biste njihove zaposlenike upitali kada se park zatvara oni bi obično odgovorili da je park otvoren do osam navečer.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Zahvalio sam publici na dolasku, izbacio par štosova, a onda rekao: - U slučaju da je netko od vas došao bez poznavanja cijele priče, spomenut ću vam savjet mog oca. On je uvijek govorio da valja predstaviti slona ukoliko se nalazi u sobi. Ako pogledate moje CT snimke, vidjet ćete da u jetri imam otprilike deset tumora. Liječnici kažu da mogu živjeti relativno zdravo još tri do šest mjeseci. To su rekli prije mjesec dana pa sad možete i sami izračunati.
Na ekranu sam pokazao veliku CT snimku moje jetre. Is-pod slajda je pisalo »Slon u sobi«, a ja sam još dodao crvene strelice koje su pokazivale svaki pojedinačni tumor.
Zadržao sam sliku neko vrijeme da publika može uočiti strelice i prebrojiti tumore. - U redu - rekao sam. -Tako je kako jest. Tu se ne da ništa promijeniti. Jedino što možemo je izabrati način reakcije. Ne možemo promijeniti karte koje smo dobili, već samo odlučiti kako ćemo igrati.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Εμπειρία είναι αυτό που αποκτάς όταν δεν έχεις αποκτήσει αυτό που θέλεις.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“لو طلب مني نصيحة موجزة في كلمتين سأقول : " كن صادقاً " ، ولو زادت على حد الكلمتين سأضيف لها : " في جميع الأوقات ".”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“IF I could only give three words of advice, they would be “tell the truth.” If I got three more words, I’d add: “All the time.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Many people might expect the talk to be about dying. But it had to be about living.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“La experiencia es lo que te queda cuando no consigues lo que querías.”
― Randy Pausch, La última lección

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Temelji. To je bilo ono što nam je poklonio trener Graham. Temelji, temelji, temelji. Kao profesor uvidio sam da ovu lekciju mnogi preskaču, najčešće na vlastitu štetu. Uvijek se moraju postaviti temelji, jer onaj zanimljivi i zabavni dio bez njih neće funkcionirati.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Nakon što sam obranio doktorat, majka bi me s velikim zadovoljstvom predstavljala ovim riječima: »Ovo je moj sin. On je doktor, ali ne od onih koji pomažu ljudima.«”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“[Jim Graham] had been a linebacker at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

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― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“While I still can, I embrace every moment with them, and do the logistical things necessary to ease their path into a life without me.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“what I liked most about the original Rocky movie was that Rocky didn’t care if he won the fight that ends the film. He just didn’t want to get knocked out. That was his goal. During the most painful times of my treatment, Rocky was an inspiration because he reminded me: It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit ...and keep moving forward.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“THIS IS beautiful advice that I got once from Jon Snoddy, my hero at Disney Imagineering. I just was so taken with the way he put it. “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.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding. We need to make sure that our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder. Most importantly, we need to let them know how to judge for themselves how they’re coming along.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“than coasting along as a self-impressed elitist behind a desk.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every time because hip is short term; earnest is long term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface… Fashion by the way is commerce masquerading as hip.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Here was a woman, having a child by accident that she surely would come to love. As for me, through the accident of cancer I’d be leaving three children to grow up without my love.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Failure is not just acceptable, it's essential.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Filing in alphabetical order is better than running around and saying, 'I know it was blue and I was eating something when I had it.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“I mean, I don't know how not to have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there's no other way to play it.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“I always liked telling my students: "Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“The same is true in your life outside of your job. All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture