Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team

Clayton M. Christensen

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• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • Thought
  • First

• Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Family
  • She
  • Think

• I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Happen

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Remember

• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Act

• I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Think
  • More
  • Now

• I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Good
  • Enemy
  • Doing

• The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Best
  • Conversation
  • Succeed

• I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Sometimes
  • Baby
  • Enjoy

• 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Tiger

• I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

  

  Babyface
  • Good
  • Different
  • Love

• I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • World
  • Women
  • Peace

• I grew up admiring Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush, and if I were old enough, I would have voted for 41. I was glad he won.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Up
  • Enough
  • President

• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Lost
  • Confused
  • Admit

• The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.

  

  Casey Stengel
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hate

• I have fallen a few times, and each time, I have gotten up and grown as a person and looked at things a little differently.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Up
  • Time

• One time, I was posing on a car for a calendar shoot. I was doused with oil and literally slid off the car, bikini, heels and all!

  

  Candace Kita
  • Time
  • Car
  • Calendar

• Actually, before 'Super 8,' I didn't even have a game console. But now I do. For a kickoff for 'Super 8,' they gave us all brand new PlayStation 3s.

  

  Joel Courtney
  • Game

• My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.

  

  Bill Dixon
  • People
  • Different
  • Career

• Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team

  

  Clayton M. Christensen
  • Help
  • Success
  • Team