Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

Clayton M. Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeSuccessHappinessPainThink

I try to cope by doing what I do, what I find purpose and joy in. For me, that has been writing and playing ball. It doesn't make the pain go away, but what else can I do?

John Edgar Wideman

PurposePainJoyMeWritingDoing

The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a relationship with. He was first our manager and then our soundman. When I met him, he was in design school for architecture, so he was always drawing.

Ann Wilson

RelationshipHeartArchitectureEarly

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

Simon Schama

HistoryMemoryGenerationSkinHuman

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

Tony Abbott

TaxConCutIncreaseCompensate

Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.

Luise Rainer

PersonSheTakeLikeWantsDoes

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

Louis C. K.

ExpensiveShowEasierCancel

Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.

Dimebag Darrell

ChainsSeattleOutGreatestGrunge

I could put everything I got in the bank on my abilities and skill and will, and what I'm capable of doing in the ring.

Deontay Wilder

DoingSkillRingWillEverything

All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.

Brendon Urie

TimePracticeSpaceYearHardJust

Seymour Hersh is one of the giants of investigative journalism.

Peter Bergen

JournalismGiantsInvestigative

I'm 100 per cent involved in everything that happens with my name, and I think if you're not, then there's something wrong.

Shawn Mendes

ThinkNameYouWrongEverything

We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.

Seth Berkley

WorldTellPolioFarLeastActually

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