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 studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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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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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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I'm a television junkie.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.
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Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?
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I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
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Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
