Clayton Christensen Quotes

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

Clayton Christensen

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• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Pretty
  • Kind
  • Play

• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
  • School
  • Control
  • Morning

• I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Done
  • Character
  • Think

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • God
  • Liberal
  • Suggestions

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Character
  • Hurt
  • Villain

• Anyone can look beautiful.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Beautiful
  • Look
  • Anyone

• Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Women
  • Society
  • Best

• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Played

• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Audience
  • See
  • Blue

• I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Camera

• The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Business
  • Secrets

• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Family
  • Together
  • Blues

• After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Support
  • My Life

• As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Money
  • Home
  • American

• It's funny, I never think I'm doing that well. I've never, ever. I just constantly think, 'This isn't working out.'

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • Funny

• Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Science
  • Black

• The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Smile

• An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Done
  • Innovation