Quote

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

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
Call
Wrong
Less
Proven
Fact
Older
Facts
Parents
Around
Week
Home
Least
Way
Parent

More quotes by Randy Pausch

Image
Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.
Randy Pausch
Image
Often think of the worst-case scenario, the Eaten By Wolves factor.
Randy Pausch
Image
Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.
Randy Pausch
Image
Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
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
Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I'm sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do I make it better? It's the third part that people tend to forget. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
Randy Pausch
Image
To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.
Randy Pausch
Image
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.'
Randy Pausch
Image
Look for the best in everybody
Randy Pausch
Image
Apologies are not pass/fail.
Randy Pausch
Image
We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.
Randy Pausch
Image
People are more important than things.
Randy Pausch
Image
Respect authority while questioning it.
Randy Pausch
Image
Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
Randy Pausch
Image
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
Randy Pausch
Image
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better
Randy Pausch
Image
There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.
Randy Pausch
Image
Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?
Randy Pausch
Image
And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.
Randy Pausch
Image
The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.
Randy Pausch