Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Solomon

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

Clay Shirky

It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

Clay Aiken

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

Clay Aiken

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

Clay Aiken

It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.

Clay Aiken

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

Clay Aiken

Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

Clay Aiken

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

Clay Aiken

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

Clay Aiken

It's important that I make a difference in some way. If it's performing and touching someone that way, that's great; if it's being a teacher and helping some kid understand something, that's even better...

Clayton Christensen

Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In our teaching we have so exalted the virtues of data-driven decision making that in many ways we condemn managers only to be able to take action after the data is clear and the game is over. In many ways a good theory is more accurate than data. It allows you to see into the future more clearly.

Clayton Christensen

There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.

Clayton Christensen

Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.

Clayton Christensen

Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

Clayton Christensen

Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.

Clayton Christensen

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.

Clayton Christensen

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

Clayton Christensen

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

Clayton Christensen

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

Claire Danes

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.

Claire Danes

I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because its over used or inappropriately used. I think in this case it informs the story.

Claire Danes

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Claire Danes

I'm human. I think people see me as sweeter and softer than I do.

Claire Danes

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

Claire Danes

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Claire Danes

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

Claire Danes

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

Daniel Keys Moran

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

Daniel Johns

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Daniel Johns

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

Daniel Johns

Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

Daniel Johns

Think what you want, this is what we are.