Carteret Quotes

#1. The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.

Clayton Christensen

#2. I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Zubin Mehta

#3. The truth of God's Word cannot be subject to the puny light of man's self-centred reason

Graeme Goldsworthy

#4. You look good. There's no better ass in a pair of jeans in the entire county and it's mine to tap.

Kristen Ashley

#5. Always be a beginner at something.

Bill Buxton

#6. The warmth in his eyes flared to heat and he captured her hand in both of his, bending over it to hold his lips against the back a long moment. He did not exactly kiss it so much as breathe her in. She feared her hand smelled of bacon, but he didn't seem to care.

Gail Dayton

#7. A good thing in one's ignorance is that one doesn't know that s/he
doesn't know.

Eraldo Banovac

#8. For all its faults we love this city.' Then, after a pause, she added: 'After all, we built it.

William Dalrymple

#9. Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

Angela Merkel

#10. Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws

Norhafsah Hamid

#11. Pearl spent the passing days buried so deep in the musty, dusty sorcery tomes that sometimes when she emerged, she spoke in archaic english. "Hast thou a light?" she'd asked him this afternoon when her study room had grown dark with gathering clouds.

Gail Dayton

#12. She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage

Gail Dayton

#13. Pleased as punch. That's an odd-sounding turn of phrase, isn't it? How can a punch be pleased? It's punch. Rum and lemons and such. And if it's the other sort of punch they mean, a punch in the face- well that doesn't sound very pleasing at all, does it?

Gail Dayton

#14. For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

E.P. Thompson

#15. Follow reason but don't ignore that gut feeling. We create reasons with our limited knowledge and experience, but gut feelings often come from universal knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Was sixteen, and very pretty, being plump and

Louisa May Alcott

#17. I just enjoy the ride while I have it.

Jorge Garcia