Explore Quotes by Randy Pausch

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!

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.

My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

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

Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

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.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'

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.

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

My colleague told me: "It took a long time, but I finally figured it out. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you"....(Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating)

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.