Clayton Christensen Quotes
The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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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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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world 'God' is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word 'world'.
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Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us.
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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.
