Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit. Randy Pausch Read Quote
I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that’s unfortunate. It’s not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it. Randy Pausch Read Quote
When men are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do. Randy Pausch Read Quote
I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn’t end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong. Randy Pausch Read Quote
I’m not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard… but sometimes you’re just not going to beat the thing… I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour. Randy Pausch Read Quote
Chemo days make me tired, though it’s hard to say that’s because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad’s usual energy level. Randy Pausch Read Quote
The particular way I’m going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won’t be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks. Randy Pausch Read Quote
Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that’s where my solace comes from. Randy Pausch Read Quote
There’s an academic tradition called the ‘Last Lecture.’ Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there’s an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn’t hypothetical. Randy Pausch Read Quote
