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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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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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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I totally let myself indulge, but I make little deals with myself. If I have an extra cupcake, I'll run a couple of extra miles. I think it's all about balance and not getting into extremes with dieting and exercising. Having a healthy attitude is important, too!
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A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.
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I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in terms of the equation of my own life. Adding "X" to my own life has given me a freedom that I didn't have before in the equation of my own existence.
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Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
