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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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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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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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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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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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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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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As the man, so his God
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A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.
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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.
