Clayton Christensen Quotes
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.
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Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
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What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.
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Many times when something irritates us we allow it to fester or grow into a slow burn. We allow our mind to tell us the person is doing it on purpose-just to be irritating. Usually, that is far from the truth
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.
