Randy Pausch

Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.

Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

It took me a long time but I finally figured it out: when it comes to men that are romantically interested in you, it's really simple: just ignore everything they say, and only pay attention to what they do. It's that simple. It's that easy.

People are more important than things."

You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear."

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound."

The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward."

Respect authority while questioning it.

When you’ve had something for ten years that you hold so precious, it’s the toughest thing in the world to hand it over. And the only advice I can give you is, find somebody better than you to hand it to.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it; You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.