Top 100 Clayton's Quotes
#1. Some men had faces that cried out for a beard. Ser Clayton's face cried out for an axe between the eyes.
George R R Martin
#2. I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.
Adam Clayton Powell III
#3. They are always motivated to go up-market, and almost never motivated to defend the new or low-end markets that the disruptors find attractive. We call this phenomenon asymmetric motivation. It is the core of the innovator's dilemma, and the beginning of the innovator's solution.
Clayton M Christensen
#4. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.
Clayton M Christensen
#5. I'm not interested in dating anyone right now. I just got here, and I'm dealing with some stuff-"
"Everybody's dealing with some stuff, darlin'. Sometimes it's just nice to deal with it while looking at a gorgeous hunk of man.
Alice Clayton
#6. ...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it so.
Ewan Clayton
#7. 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 we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
Clayton M Christensen
#8. Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.
Clayton Christensen
#9. You realize we are two smart women who are not acting very smart right now,' she said.
'Huh?'
'We know better than to try to figure out what a man is up to. This'll get worked out when it's suppose to.
Alice Clayton
#10. But sometimes you have to pretend to be feeling better to actually feel better. It's why new workout clothes make you feel like you want to work out. I was still waiting for that one to turn out to be true . . .
Alice Clayton
#11. I watch his lips moving and he doesn't seem to notice that I'm about to reach up, unzip myself from the skull down, jump out of my skin, and yell, Surprise! There's a crazy person in here!
Colleen Clayton
#12. I'm gonna try to steal home."
I smiled. "Silly Simon, it's not stealing if I wave you in
Alice Clayton
#13. It's hard to say why with some people you could talk all day and all night, while with others it's a struggle to find enough to say during a single course at dinner.
Victoria Clayton
#14. A lot has been written about the Internet bust. From my point of view, it's quite clear the Internet isn't a category; the Internet is a technological infrastructure that can be deployed to facilitate a disruptive business model or a sustaining business model.
Clayton Christensen
#15. The eyes and the hair were a package deal, the hair was falling across his eyes in a careless way that said Hey, girl. I've got peas on my shoes, but who cares, because I've got these eyes and this hair, and it's pretty fucking great.
Alice Clayton
#16. Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.
Merry Clayton
#17. He's very nice," said Mrs. Clayton, "but not quite quite, you know. Hasn't got any idea of culture." Richard found his room exceedingly comfortable, and his appreciation of Mrs. Clayton as a hostess rose still higher.
Agatha Christie
#18. it's amazing the things you can convince yourself of when the alternative seems like too much work.
Clayton Baker
#19. You want me, don't you?" he asked, and I nodded. "Say it. Out loud."
Did he just quote Twilight? No matter.
"Ah wah oo." I managed. Not as sexy when you're sucking someone's thumb. But that's okay. This was happening.
Alice Clayton
#20. Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn
Kelley Armstrong
#21. There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.
Clayton Christensen
#22. Sometimes you have to pretend to be feeling better to actually feel better. It's why new workout clothes make you feel like you want to work out.
Alice Clayton
#23. My stomach knotted up as heat surged through me. Why did I feel like melting every time I saw him, or heard him talk? "Stop that right now." I blushed. "I know what you're doing, Jace, and it's not going to work."
Jace and Charlie.
J.L. Clayton
#24. He pushed me back up against the door, slamming me against the doorbell. I heard it ring out.
"Coming!" I heard Holly say as she clicked across the floor to the front door.
"Not quite, but she's close." He chuckled, removing his hand and leaving me breathless and rosy cheeked.
Alice Clayton
#25. It's one thing to admire a man's work. It's another to get your picture in the paper doing it." General Clayton
M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
#26. Well, I drank enough to sustain a small Spanish village, I haven't had an orgasm in a thousand years, and I will probably die old and alone in a beautifully designed apartment with all of Clive's illegitimate children swarming around me ... How do you think I feel?
Alice Clayton
#27. It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.
Clayton Christensen
#28. And a fire in the fireplace? Wow, that's impressive." I continued, walking backwards into the room.
"Yeah, I saw it in a book about how to woo women ... apparently you all like to be boinked in front of a roaring fire.
Alice Clayton
#29. It doesn't always have to be so hard. Sometimes falling in love just means turning around and seeing what's right in front of you.
Alice Clayton
#30. I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.
John Clayton
#31. I don't really believe in that "you need to make them come to you" kind of thing. I'm like, I'll come to her and if she's cool I'll stick around, and if she's not, then I'll leave at any time.
Clayton Snyder
#32. That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think that's bullshit. I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that they'll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person.
Chevy Stevens
#33. You have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble.
Donna Clayton
#34. Was I seriously awake at, let's see, one
sixteen a.m. and attempting to discern the national origin of
the woman getting plowed next door?
Alice Clayton
#35. I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.
Clayton Moore
#36. It's like kissing a Jack 'o' Lantern. What's with the grin?
Alice Clayton
#37. I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's true.
Clayton M Christensen
#38. When I sit down with a novel in my hand I want to enjoy the experience. That means having fun. Too many books take themselves too seriously and even a drama needs to have it's lighter moments to make the dark parts more intense.
Clayton J. Callahan
#39. The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
Clayton Christensen
#40. This work of the Lord is indeed great and marvelous, but it moves forward essentially unnoticed by many of mankind's political, cultural, and academic leaders. It progresses one heart and one family at a time, silently and unobtrusively, its sacred message blessing people everywhere.
L. Whitney Clayton
#41. If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades, Hewlett-Packard would be on everybody's list. You'd also put on this list GE and Johnson & Johnson.
Clayton Christensen
#42. My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.
Merry Clayton
#43. There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.
Adam Clayton
#44. In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that we hadn't been able to solve with the conventional approach of mainstream pharmaceutical companies.
Clayton Christensen
#45. During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution - because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way.
Clayton Christensen
#46. He bent over the back of sofa inside my apartment and removed my panties. With his Teeth.
With his mother-loving teeth! I can't even!
Romance novels, schmomance novels, here's how Wallbanger does it
Alice Clayton
#47. You want to know if that's the only reason I called, Vivian? he asked finally, his voice octaves and octaves lower than Daytime Clark. Raspy, gruff, rough-and-tumble.
Alice Clayton
#48. Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You features Stephen Westmoreland's
Judith McNaught
#49. I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.
Merry Clayton
#50. Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.
Clayton Christensen
#51. It's daylight and I can see so many things I couldn't see back then. - Laney
Meg Waite Clayton
#52. The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.
Clayton Christensen
#53. Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.
Clayton Christensen
#54. Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.
Alice Clayton
#55. Though he had not done much, perhaps, to improve the lot of man, he had never added to the world's misery. He had never been unkind or discourteous or greedy or dishonest.
Victoria Clayton
#56. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
Adam Clayton
#57. Simon thought I was lovely.
Was the Giggler out of the harem?
Was there even a harem left?
What did this mean?
Would I only think in questions now?
And if so, who is Eric Cartman's father?
Alice Clayton
#58. I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
Adam Clayton
#59. I don't care how old you are, or what background you come from, there are two universal truths. We will always laugh at ... gas if it happens at the wrong time, and we are always curious about what goes on in other people's bedrooms.
Alice Clayton
#60. Look how fantastic this ring looks on my hand while it's holding your cook."
"Jesus Christ, woman.
Alice Clayton
#61. We have to stop, this is insane. I literally cannot handle anymore. I think I've lost brain function. I can actually feel myself becoming stupid"
...
"Not possible. Let's test it. What's two times two?"
"Orange?
Alice Clayton
#62. Clive remained behind Simon's knees.
Simon's Knees . . .
What a great name for a band.
Alice Clayton
#63. I scrambled backward on the bed, moving toward the headboard.
"Where you going, sweet Caroline?" he asked, crawling across the bed to get to me.
"I wanted to hold on for this," I quipped, arching an eyebrow and my back as I grabbed on to the iron headboard.
"That's my girl.
Alice Clayton
#64. That's the only reason," he said. "Have a good night. Sweet dreams.
Alice Clayton
#65. Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.
Clayton Christensen
#66. I think there's only one sensible place for a person to be at 5:30 in the morning. That's in bed. And what am I doing? I'm out running. And I completely hate this.
Derek Clayton
#67. The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
Clayton M Christensen
#68. The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.
Clayton Christensen
#69. In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.
Clayton Christensen
#70. I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
Adam Clayton
#71. For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
Adam Clayton
#72. For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the human condition, it must be another look at infinity, it must be another way of seeing the paradox of existence.
George Clayton Johnson
#73. My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive.
Clayton M Christensen
#74. In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.
Clayton Christensen
#75. Jace's husky voice almost came out in a purr. He said, "You want to make a bet on that, Charlie." Oh yeah, he can sell that stuff alright. "No worries," Jace was saying. "I only have eyes for you." He touched the tip of my nose with his finger. I swatted him away. Jace laughed.
~Jace~
J.L. Clayton
#76. Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
Powell Clayton
#77. It's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
Clayton Christensen
#78. That was Clay's olive branch to Quinn, and if the sumbitch weren't as stubborn as a mule, he'd take it.
Alex Morgan
#79. Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
Adam Clayton
#80. The search for identity in one's youth is a journey of alternate boredom and agony interrupted by flash of joy.
Victoria Clayton
#81. Just trying to get a visual of you on the beach in Spain ...
How's that working out for you?
Pretty spiffy.
Spiffy? Did you just say spiffy?
I typed it actually. You got something against spiffy?
Alice Clayton
#82. You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.
Merry Clayton
#83. There is nothing sexual about my interest in other women's breasts. But it's difficult not be curious when you have next to none of your own.
Victoria Clayton
#84. I'm a practical romantic. I can actually see some appeal in having a guy who travels a lot, because, frankly? I like my space. I also take up the entire bed, so it's difficult for me to sleep with anyone.
Alice Clayton
#85. Boy, as far as you're concerned, my word is law, and you're just a bitch without a number. Now, you keep on with this conversation, and I'll have to hurt your sensitive little feelin's. Fuckin' yuppie.
Alex Morgan
#86. To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.
Clayton M Christensen
#87. Fucking hell, Clayton! Yes, this sucks, but it's not forever. And I swear to God if you try this whole I'm letting you go because I love you too much line of crap again, I will smack the crap out of you!
A Meredith Walters
#88. Don't you try to pacify me!" screamed Grandpa Joe, waggling a finger at her. "I know when something's afoot! And something's definitely afoot!
Clayton Smith
#89. Clay's brow's furrowed as the yuppie, Yankee, tone filled his ear. Who the hell could be dating a yuppie in Midnight? Sure, one could end up with a Yankee; it wasn't out of the realm of possibility, but a fucking yuppie?
Alex Morgan
#90. We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.
Meg Waite Clayton
#91. My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
Clayton Christensen
#92. Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management; that's dealmaking.
Clayton Christensen
#93. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
Clayton Christensen
#94. I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.
Jamie Clayton
#95. There's all kinds of stuff on the internet. You could've Googled it." he stated. still moving his hand closer. I could feel the energy between us begin to hum again. "I think that you should go Google yourself, Brit boy. I'm not interested in Googling you .
Alice Clayton
#97. It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.
Clayton M Christensen
#98. I pulled out the small velvet box I had kept in my pocket all day and got down on one knee.
And then she did the craziest thing.
She fell down to her knees in front of me.
I'm the one who's supposed to be on my
knees here. You're ruining the moment
A Meredith Walters
#99. A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
Adam Clayton
#100. Pickles are people too
Clayton
