I’ve decided to tell my kids things like: ‘I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.’ I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
Category Archive: Randy Pausch
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.
I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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 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.
It’s hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer – people who get it don’t live long enough.
I didn’t know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
The metaphor I’ve used is… somebody’s going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won’t be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.