If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field work

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.