Clayton Christensen Quotes
I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.
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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 like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.
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Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.
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The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals.
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I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.
