Clayton Christensen Quotes

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

Clayton Christensen

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• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Change
  • Sun

• I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Remember
  • America
  • Girl

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Moral

• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • School
  • Home
  • House

• I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Stunts

• So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Know
  • Mean

• I love TV. I love the stability of it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Stability

• The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Free

• It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Matter
  • Discipline

• Most men have nothing in their heads but their physical needs; put them on a desert island with nothing to occupy their minds and they would go insane. They lack real motive. The curse of civilization is boredom.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Men
  • Real
  • Desert

• There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Death
  • Famous

• Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

  

  Jane Smiley

• Whether homemade granola or Matt's Munchies, I'm always snacking!

  

  Hannah Bronfman

• Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Up
  • Hand

• One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Player
  • Unique
  • Hero

• With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's so much attention focused on the roasts. It's like the 'Super Bowl' of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Game
  • Hate
  • Attention

• The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • World
  • Great
  • Mind

• The women's national team is a very successful team, and that success has given us a platform to speak on gender equity issues. Millions of young women play soccer in this country, and it's empowering for them to see that our contribution to the game is valued.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Women
  • Country
  • Game

• We women need to rise to the occasion. The ayahuasca experience rebirths, inspires, empowers, and ignites us to do that. The Cosmic Sister Plant Spirit Grant is just one small way women can encourage and support women to take that journey and shine as they were born to do.

  

  Zoe Helene
  • Support
  • Spirit
  • Journey

• There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Empowering