Clayton Christensen Quotes
I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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Everyone knows Mike Portnoy's reputation. He's a great drummer, and he helped us out in a great time of need. He really helped us get back underneath our feet and continue this band.
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If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.
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I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth.
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I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.