Randy Pausch Time Quotations

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.

The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

Time is the only commodity that matters.

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.

Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.