Clayton Christensen Quotes
Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
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I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage.
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You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?
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If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.
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He's German so he's Herr Ball. Herr Ball. His movies are so bad, cats choke when they hear his name.
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When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
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St. Andrews by far is my favorite golf course in the world. It's where the game all started, it's why we have 18 holes instead of 22 and I think the history behind St. Andrews is amazing. There is no other golf course in the world that can say that every great player who has ever played the game has played that golf course.
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What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'
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Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
