Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

Clayton M. Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HappinessTruthBelieveSearchWhy

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

Jo Brand

PeopleThinkComedyYouAppearance

I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

Matthew Modine

TooCoupleTimesRobertWorked

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.

Meriwether Lewis

WeatherColdEveningPartyCaptain

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

Stephan Jenkins

BelieveCardsBallsCrystalNeed

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Sun Tzu

FateYouMysteriousDirectorPoint

You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies.

Steven Berkoff

MoneyManPerformanceYouMovies

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

Tom Felton

TimeBookReadingDoingOldYears

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

Mitchell Zuckoff

AchievementPeopleNegativeNames

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Jon Lester

SayHimSeeWholeDealCome

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Douglas Coupland

FailureGenuineRealPureBeing

Okay - before I even had a baby, I would dream of the day I could make ponytails on my kid. I don't know why. I somehow got it in my head that it would be such a cool thing.

Constance Marie

DayBabyCoolDreamKnowWhy

If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.

Chuck Pagano

I CanCircumstancesRightThrough

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