Randy Pausch Quotes

The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.

Randy Pausch

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• It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Same
  • Data

• The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

  

  Ma Jian
  • World
  • Stage
  • China

• Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Practice

• There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Green

• I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Expect

• Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Know
  • Football

• The people in my district don't call me 'congressman' - doesn't matter how old they are, they call me 'Jack.' They see me at the grocery store, at soccer games.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Me
  • Soccer

• I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Years

• I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Home
  • Sun
  • Sea

• You gave us Rupert Murdoch ,thanks a lot you guys, take him back.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Thanks

• But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Words
  • Faith

• I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

  

  Bill Owen
  • Men
  • Organization

• It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Sad

• The only person I'll marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • Believe
  • Ego

• An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Uncle

• In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Good
  • Success
  • Popular

• I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

  

  Elliot Page
  • World
  • Alone

• You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Responsible

• The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Power
  • Balance
  • Companies

• I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time.

  

  Nick Burd
  • Mirror
  • Trance
  • Stare

• This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer, and is as much affected by outward causes.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Young People
  • Sentiment
  • Barometer

• The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.

  

  Randy Pausch