You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it's much easier to address issues where you have differences. Sports cut across boundaries of race and wealth. And if nothing else, we all have the weather in common. - Randy Pausch
Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers. - Randy Pausch
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice. - Randy Pausch
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you. - Randy Pausch
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. - Randy Pausch
Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many. - Randy Pausch
We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper 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 are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to. - Randy Pausch
You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more. - Randy Pausch
Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it. - Randy Pausch
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
The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening. - Randy Pausch
When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you. - Randy Pausch
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. - Randy Pausch
It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not. - Randy Pausch