Randy Pausch Quotes

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

Improving, for me, is quite natural as I'm always critical of myself.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

I'm always my hardest critic.

I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.

I am my own biggest critic.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

Throughout my career, I have criticized my every single step and I am open to any criticism.

Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it's always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'This, this, and this I need to improve.' That's how it is.

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

I am constantly analysing my performances and I tend to focus more on things I haven't done as well as I'd have liked.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.