Randy Pausch Quotes

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

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• Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Know
  • Simple
  • Name

• Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Love
  • Way
  • Special

• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Old
  • Jeans
  • Boots

• In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Future
  • Environment
  • Feel

• The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Nature
  • Past
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• GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Smart
  • Data
  • Cloud

• My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Nice
  • Myself

• We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • Good
  • Know

• I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • Important
  • Kids

• The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Moral
  • Story
  • Temporary

• I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Long
  • Fast
  • Programming

• I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Words
  • Ideas

• The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Terrible
  • Been
  • Rebuilding

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
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• Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • People
  • Writing
  • Women

• But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Strong

• I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Love
  • Home

• The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

  

  George Hackenschmidt
  • Power
  • Living
  • Enjoyment

• I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

  

  Fatima Robinson
  • Never
  • Something
  • Listen

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Great
  • Office

• But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Face

• I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Never
  • Emotion
  • Pity