Clayton Christensen Quotes
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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When I'm snowboarding, I just feel stronger and more flexible and more able to trust my instincts - because there are times when you really do have to be mindful with the jumps you're hitting and the conditions that you're riding in.
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I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
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It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.
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The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
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The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
