Randy Pausch Quotes

An injured lion still wants to roar.
Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.
Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.
I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.
I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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Randy Pausch
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23 October, 1960
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25 July, 2008
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