Clayton Christensen Quotes
In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.
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I think I was born to be a clown. I just haven't figured out how to bring that side of myself into the world of filmmaking. It's much more comfortable for me to cry on a film set than it is to tell a joke.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.
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In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.
