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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.
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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.
