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 like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.
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Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.
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Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
