Clayton Christensen Quotes
In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.
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This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.
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Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.
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Rest is huge because if you're sleep-deprived, that can definitely run into the mental side of the game and can definitely hurt your game if you're playing tournament golf.
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I want finally to thank Londoners for their solidarity. There are some places in the world where such an incident would have unleashed internal strife and physical violence. London has stood together, we haven’t had any problems of the sort you might see in other parts of the world and I think it says everything about what is right about this city.
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In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.
