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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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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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.
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When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.
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My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with the mayor. He didn't really care what people thought, so he was able to put himself out there. He didn't have a lot of shame, in a good way.
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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.
