Randy Pausch Quotes (61 Quotes)

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we'd all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.

And even though I did not reach the NFL, I sometimes think I got more from persuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, then I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

People are more important than things.

Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.