Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it.

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 big mysteries about the black hole at the center of the galaxy is, 'Why don't we see emission from matter falling onto the black hole, or, rather, the black hole eating up its surroundings?'

Andrea M. Ghez

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I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

Ry Cooder

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My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.

Michiko Kakutani

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I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

Donald Miller

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I hate myself in interviews. All of a sudden, you stop and you're like, 'Chris, how dare you?' I don't live in Darfur. I have both legs. But you can't walk around all the time being like, 'I'm so grateful I'm not in Darfur.'

Chris Evans

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The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you don't start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Colleen Haskell

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The extremists took over the primary process.

Arlen Specter

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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

Antonya Nelson

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The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.

Astro Teller

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That's what I think is the neat thing about TV: how alive it is and how the writers respond to the stimulus that they're getting from the actual actors. Whereas a movie is more hermetically sealed.

Thomas Jane

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Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.

Norm MacDonald

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The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

Marla Gibbs

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