Randy Pausch Quotes

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

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• What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

  

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• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

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• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

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• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

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• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

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• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

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• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

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• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.

  

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• It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

  

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• Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

  

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• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

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• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

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• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

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• People work hard.

  

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• As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

  

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• For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
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• No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

  

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• The Allies had the resources, industry, and logistics of an entire planet. The Axis, on the other hand, had to depend on what scant assets they could scrape up within their borders. This time we were the Axis.

  

  Max Brooks
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• Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Cool