Clayton Christensen Quotes
The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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She was a giant in the 20th century for women, and most significantly was a catalyst for change in the American culture. She defined the problem, and then she had the courage to do something about it.
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I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
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Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
