Randy Pausch Quotes

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

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

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

I learned a lot from Cherry Jones, from the questions she asked and the opinions she had.

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the willingness to confront facts, pleasant or unpleasant. It is the desire to discover our mistakes and correct them . . . it is the quest to keep expanding our awareness and understanding, both of the world external to self and the world within.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

I get to learn and teach something new everyday.