Randy Pausch Quotes

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

We cannot make great historical events, but must adapt ourselves to the natural course of things and limit ourselves to securing what is already ripe.

No matter what you thought your plans were, that's not how things are going to work out, and that's the only way you can really, I think, live successfully.

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?

I think things happen, and we have no control over them, and what you take from them is really what is important.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.

You can't always have your way. Sometimes life is going to go a different direction. But you've got to learn how to adjust, and you've got to learn how to deal with it.

Sometimes the ball isn't always going to bounce your way. But you've got to find a way to affect the game.

You don't often get a choice in who your enemies are, who you're friends with, what your situation is, and the environment you're placed in. You just have to make do with what you have.

Things in life just happen and then you make the best of the situation and you keep moving.