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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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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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Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore.
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
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Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
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Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.
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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.
