Clayton Christensen Quotes
Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.
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Work is important, no doubt, but one can end up neglecting family and friends in the bargain. So I have resolved not to let that happen and maintain work-life balance by taking time out for the people who matter the most to me.
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I've worn down America.
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Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.
