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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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Death
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• 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.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • Building
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Truth
  • Think

• I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • You
  • Wear
  • Wearing

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • She
  • Man

• Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Love
  • Humanity
  • Compassion

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • You
  • Fast
  • Pace

• You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Me
  • Might
  • Entrepreneur

• To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • Up
  • Help

• You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Success
  • Wisdom

• I emceed in metro Detroit throughout college, and even when I moved to New York, I would actually fly back on a Friday, emcee on a Saturday, and fly back on Sunday so that I could audition during the week. It was a big part of my life.

  

  James Wolk
  • Life
  • College
  • Fly

• But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Long
  • Writing

• It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Done
  • Regret
  • Not Done

• 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.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Game
  • Success