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.

Clayton M. Christensen

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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 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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• 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 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 don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

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• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

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• When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family - the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and wisdom.

  

  Tasha Smith
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• The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.

  

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• In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

  

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• We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.

  

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• The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

  

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• Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

  

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• My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.

  

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• Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

  

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• The second stage is like this: When God has drawn a person so far away from all things, and he is no longer a child and he has been strengthened with the comfort of sweetness. Then indeed one gives him coarse rye bread. He has become a man and has reached maturity. Solid, strong food is what is good and useful for a grown man. He

  

  Johannes Tauler
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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
  • Good
  • Help
  • Humble