Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind.

Clayton M. Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

Megan Hilty

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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

John Maynard Keynes

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Since the first large Zika outbreak ever recognized, in 2007, the CDC has had boots on the ground responding. Our laboratories have developed a test that can confirm Zika in the first week of illness or in a sample from an affected child.

Tom Frieden

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The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I've always embraced everything and been open-minded about what's ahead.

Donna Air

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Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.

Douglas Conant

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Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts, mandated tests, rushed lunch periods, and a decrease in time for physical activity.

Dean Ornish

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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

Brian Ferneyhough

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When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

Brian Greene

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Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.

Brantley Gilbert

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The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.

Pierre Schaeffer

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I've experienced harassment. I've had male comedians be very inappropriate.

Phoebe Robinson

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