Randy Pausch Quotes

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcomed.

Randy Pausch

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• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Winter
  • Focused
  • Classic

• By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Time
  • You
  • Know

• I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Body

• Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Pretty
  • Hot
  • Too

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Men
  • Home
  • Remember

• You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Children
  • Kindness
  • Skiing

• I'll say anything to live.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Live
  • Say
  • Anything

• That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then you go home, then you're not allowed out, then you do this... there comes a point in your career - about thirty, thirty-one - when you get a bit sick of being screamed at.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Home
  • Career

• There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • You
  • Better
  • Overcoming

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • American
  • New
  • Obsession

• We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Help
  • Interesting
  • Style

• We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Men
  • Kids
  • Together

• We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. Imagine walking up to a girl in a bar and going into a four-minute speech about how great you are. No one wants to hear that.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Word
  • Let
  • Infatuation

• We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Military

• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Kids

• In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • People

• I was such a goofy kid that, when I won things, people were like, 'Oh, when did that happen?'

  

  Kaetlyn Osmond
  • People

• The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.

  

  bell hooks
  • Political
  • Support

• I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

  

  Harvey Cushing
  • Work
  • Surgeon

• Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcomed.

  

  Randy Pausch