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Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

Clayton M. Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 6, 1952

Topics

Opportunity People Management Better

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

Great Shoes Yourself Learn You Read

You have to change on the fly. You have to adapt. It's what I do. It's what wins for me.

Change Me Fly You Adapt Wins

I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.

School Drama Go London Years Left

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.

Change End View You Know Want

I saw my friends being beaten because they said no to child marriage.

Sonita Alizadeh

Marriage Child Friends Said Saw

President Barack Obama talks about the need to 'invest' in alternative energy sources. But the reality is that he is not investing his money - he's spending yours.

Money Energy Reality President Need

Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

Live Start Better You Always Get

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Growth Short Side Things Painful

I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage.

Love Treat Design Always Stage

I haven't had the occasion to meet Adele. She lives in England. So when I'm flying, or when she comes over here, perhaps we'll have a chance. I think she's a very fine singer, a very strong writer and performer.

Aretha Franklin

Flying Chance Strong Think Meet She

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Depression Purpose Poetry Now Write

I couldn't understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids, I would hate for them to drop out. But I wasn't a rebel. I never cared to be against school. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.

Decision Hate School Rebel Important

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