Clayton Christensen Quotes
Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
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My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.
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I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?'
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When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.
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In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.
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Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
