Randy Pausch Quotes

We're not going to talk about spirituality and religion. Although I will tell you that I have experienced a deathbed conversion. I just bought a Macintosh.

Randy Pausch

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• At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Air
  • Show
  • Steel

• I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think

• I was the hallway clown in high school.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I learn my songs by ear.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Ear

• I don't think limits.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Limits

• There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Play
  • Bible
  • Video Games

• It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Training

• The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Pressure

• I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Stand

• We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Believe
  • Vision
  • End

• The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Fashion
  • Focus
  • Media

• I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Books
  • Prize
  • Mysteries

• It's difficult when your family are not physically around you.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Family
  • You
  • Difficult

• I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• A dictum Beckett quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • May
  • Power
  • Hope

• Sure-hoofed is my steed impelled by the spur;The high sprigs of alder are on thy shield;Bran art thou called, of the glittering branches.

  

  Taliesin
  • Art
  • High

• High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • School
  • High
  • Interesting

• You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Generation
  • Step
  • Recycling

• As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've been through everything, you know, so I can write a positive song like 'Better Get to Livin'' because that's my attitude. But that doesn't mean I'm happy all the time. You can't be a deep and serious songwriter without feelings. You kinda have to live with your feelings out on your sleeve and get hurt more than most people. The fear I might get hurt means I might not be able to write another song.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Song
  • Mean
  • Hurt

• There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Funny
  • Audience
  • Connecting

• We're not going to talk about spirituality and religion. Although I will tell you that I have experienced a deathbed conversion. I just bought a Macintosh.

  

  Randy Pausch