Joshua Cline

“Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? You may have causes, goals, interests. Are they even worth pursuing? I've long held on to a clipping from a newspaper in Roanoke, Virginia. It featured a photo of a pregnant woman who had lodged a protest against a local construction site. She worried that the sound of jackhammers was injuring her unborn child. But get this: In the photo, the woman is holding a cigarette. If she cared about her unborn child, the time she spent railing against jackhammers would have been better spent putting out that cigarette.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“(About The Last Lecture) It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“On the first day of practice, we were all scared to death. Plus he hadn't brought along any footballs. One kid finally spoke up for all of us 'Excuse me, Coach. There are no footballs.'
And Coach Graham responded, 'We don't need any footballs.' There was silence while we thought about that...
'How many men are on the football field at a time?' he asked us. Eleven on a team, we answered. So that makes twenty-two.
'And how many people are touching the football at any given time?' One of them.
'Right!' he said. 'So we're going to work on what those other twenty-one guys are doing.'
Fundamentals. That was a great gift Coach Graham gave us. Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. As a college professor, I've seen this one lesson so many kids ignore, always to their detriment: You've got to get the fundamentals down, because otherwise the fancy stuff is not going to work.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture