Clayton Christensen Quotes

In life, we all learn from everyone.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

I learned life from some good teachers.

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.

I grew up watching Oprah on television. So, to say I didn't learn a lot from her just wouldn't be true.

Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.

You learn from everything.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.