Randy Pausch Quotes

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

I would exchange everything for one child of my own.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

I hate to confess that I would love to have all of my children in Washington - and at the same time, they've been all over the place, and my heart of hearts, I believe that freedom is wonderful.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

Music means a great deal to me.

For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done, you want everybody to like it like you want everybody to like your children.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.