Clayton Christensen Quotes

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

You'd never be able to appreciate what's good in life if you've never experienced the bad.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

As you get older, you realize happiness involves a lot of problems.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Life at best is bittersweet.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.