Clayton Christensen Quotes

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

Clayton Christensen

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• I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Message

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Fear
  • Hair

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • House
  • Mom
  • Drama

• 'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Period
  • Pride
  • Prejudice

• What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • People
  • Man
  • Investment

• I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Great
  • Sure
  • Achievements

• The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • You
  • Products
  • E-mail

• I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Women
  • Real
  • American

• It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Priority

• I've found the world's most versatile word - 'cheeky.' The amount of ways you guys can use the word 'cheeky' is quite impressive.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • World
  • You
  • Most

• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Whatever

• Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher.

  

  Larry Miller
  • People
  • Looking
  • Market

• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Mother

• The very first right of every animal is the right to live. As you cannot give life to a dead creature, you do not have the right to take life away from a living one.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Life
  • Live
  • Animal

• Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Nature
  • Law

• Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Yoga
  • Calm

• When I finished with LSE, Laski, of his own, gave me a letter of introduction for Panditji. On reaching Delhi I sought an appointment with the PM. I suppose, because I was an Indian student returning home from London, I was given a time-slot. It was here in Parliament House that he met me. We talked for a few minutes about London and things like that and I could soon see that it was time for me to leave. So I said goodbye and as I left the room I handed over the letter from Laski, and stepped out into the great circular corridor outside. When I was half way round, I heard the sound of someone clapping from the direction I had just come. I turned to see Panditji (Nehru) beckoning me to come back. He had opened the letter as I left his room and read it. [Nehru asked:] "Why didn't you give this to me earlier?" [and I replied:] "Well, sir, I am sorry. I thought it would be enough if I just handed it over while leaving." After a few more questions, he asked me to see him again and very soon I found myself entering the Indian Foreign Service.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Letter
  • Indian
  • Introduction

• As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Education

• There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • People
  • High
  • Free

• Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

  

  Clayton Christensen