Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.

Clayton M. Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.

Jesse Kellerman

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Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

John Hodgman

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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Stella Benson

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I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

Soulja Boy

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It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.

Lucy Larcom

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Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Josiah Royce

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And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

Jason Statham

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Diane Arbus

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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Dick Cavett

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Exercise is the main thing that helped me lose weight.

Drew Carey

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That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

Donald Trump

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Once you get within a few weeks of the show and it becomes WrestleMania season, the energy starts picking up, and the energy feels different. You can feel it in the air, and every show means a little bit more, and everything is a little more focused and directed. Everything's directing toward that day of WrestleMania.

Dean Ambrose

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