Randy Pausch Quotes

I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Sometimes, we just have to be asked.

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

I believe that you will not get what you want unless you ask for it.

You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

If you want to be clear, act.

You don't get what you don't ask for

Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

The way to do some things is to do them.

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

Do you want me to answer that?

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.