Randy Pausch idézetek
Randy Pausch: Idézetek angolul
Time Management (2007)
Kontextus: Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone, maybe at home. Find your dead time. Schedule meetings, phone calls, and mundane stuff during it.
“And these are the kind of things that I think everybody ought to be doing. Helping others.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
Kontextus: My dad was so full of life, anything with him was an adventure. [Shows picture of his Dad holding a brown paper bag] I don’t know what’s in that bag, but I know it’s cool. My dad dressed up as Santa Claus, but he also did very, very significant things to help lots of people. This is a dormitory in Thailand that my mom and dad underwrote. And every year about 30 students get to go to school who wouldn’t have otherwise. This is something my wife and I have also been involved in heavily. And these are the kind of things that I think everybody ought to be doing. Helping others.
“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”
The Last Lecture (2008)
CMU Graduation speech (2008)
Kontextus: 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. Because when he shows up, it’s too late to do all the things that you’re always gonna, kinda get around to.
“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
“When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
Forrás: The Last Lecture (2008), Chapter 37: Watch What They Do, Not What They Say, p. 146
“The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
Forrás: The Last Lecture (2008), Chapter 7: I Never Made it in the NFL, pp. 36 - 37
… It's important to have specific dreams.
The Last Lecture (2007)
“We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
Forrás: The Last Lecture (2008), Chapter 32: Don't Complain, Just Work Harder, p. 139
“Be good at something. It makes you valuable.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
Forrás: The Last Lecture (2008), Chapter 39: Be the First Penguin, p. 149
“Respect authority while questioning it.”
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The Last Lecture (2007)