Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.

Clayton M. Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Meghan O'Rourke

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The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Jean-Claude Killy

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There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen.

Amal Clooney

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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

Sophocles

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The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Steven Pinker

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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Steven Wright

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I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

Topher Grace

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I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

Miguel Cabrera

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I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.

Mira Nair

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I still go on YouTube and watch the old performances and the 'Soul Train' lines. I'm still amazed by how much soul and funk the music and dancers had.

Missy Elliott

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I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.

Lisa Lutz

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I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

Donald Pleasence

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