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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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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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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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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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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The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
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I've always loved the infield, because I came up as an infielder.
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Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
