Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves.

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

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• Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

  

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• I love anything to do with history.

  

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• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

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• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

  

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• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

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• Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

  

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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

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• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

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• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

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• I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

  

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• I am not afraid to go to jail.

  

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• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

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• I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

  

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• I have nothing left but my integrity.

  

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• This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.

  

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• Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

  

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• Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen
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