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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I've been dancing since I was 6 years old. That kind of relentless dedication and intensity is where I'm comfortable.
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.
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The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
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The weight and concentration of the poems fall upon things (and those great things, animals and people), in their tough, laconic, un-get-pastable plainness: they have kept the stolid and dangerous inertia of the objects of the sagas-the sword that snaps, the man looking at his lopped-off leg and saying, 'That was a good stroke.'
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Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
