Quote

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: We worked hard at it.

Randy Pausch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
Computer Scientist
Motivational Speaker
Pedagogue
Professor
University Teacher
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Randy Frederick Pausch
Randy F. Pausch
Felt
Drawn
Together
Adult
Able
Adults
Hard
Worked
Thing
Married
Long
Couple
Life
Stay
Asks
Couples

More quotes by Randy Pausch

Image
There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.
Randy Pausch
Image
if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
Randy Pausch
Image
Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.
Randy Pausch
Image
I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.
Randy Pausch
Image
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give it's something they have to build.
Randy Pausch
Image
Never make a decesion until you have to. He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.
Randy Pausch
Image
But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.
Randy Pausch
Image
Often think of the worst-case scenario, the Eaten By Wolves factor.
Randy Pausch
Image
We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.
Randy Pausch
Image
somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do
Randy Pausch
Image
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
Randy Pausch
Image
If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
Randy Pausch
Image
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.
Randy Pausch
Image
Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that
Randy Pausch
Image
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
Randy Pausch
Image
We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.
Randy Pausch
Image
Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.
Randy Pausch
Image
It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
Randy Pausch
Image
What he said was: You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere. And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.
Randy Pausch
Image
Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication.
Randy Pausch