Clayton M. Christensen Quotes
It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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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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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.
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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
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The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
