Clayton Christensen Quotes
The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.
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One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.
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From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
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Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
