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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• 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.

  

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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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• There's gonna be people that don't like you, regardless. But I take on the mentality of, 'Look, I'm gonna do whatever I want to do. If people don't like, they don't like it.'

  

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• When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.

  

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• People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.

  

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• With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.

  

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• Good friends are like beautiful flowers in the garden of life.

  

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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