Clayton Christensen Quotes
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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In terms of the espionage, this is something I have talked to President Obama about. We don't want it to mar the relationship between Mexico and the United States. But it is unacceptable for a country to practice such espionage, especially if there is a good relationship with the other country.
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In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.
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Now in the mountains and fields of America, on its flatlands and in its jungles, in the wilderness or in the traffic of cities, on the banks of its great oceans or rivers, this world is beginning to tremble. Anxious hands are stretched forth, ready to die for what is theirs, to win those rights that were laughed at by one and all for 500 years.
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I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.
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I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
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The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.
