Randy Pausch Lecture Quotations

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.

You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

People are more important than things.

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.

Focus on other people, not on yourself.

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.

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

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.

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.