Clayton Christensen Quotes
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day - the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills - have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.
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I am a geek. I am an otaku.
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
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We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
