Clayton Christensen Quotes

If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains... we must learn to crawl into the life of what makes people tick.

Clayton Christensen

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• There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Great
  • Night
  • Attitude

• I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Should

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dad

• It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Interesting
  • Easy

• I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Shift

• I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Nature
  • Pain
  • Human Nature

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
  • Fall

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • World
  • Impossible

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Up
  • Man
  • Me

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• Girls love emotion.

  

  Prince Royce

• I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?

  

  Kathi Appelt
  • Why
  • Car
  • Wonder

• If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

  

  Sam Dew
  • Done
  • Fun
  • Year

• After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'

  

  Megan Hilty
  • People

• If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains... we must learn to crawl into the life of what makes people tick.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Profound