Clayton Christensen Quotes

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

I don't think circumstances change who you are as a person. I don't believe they change your values - unless you willingly would like them to.

I have written and said countless times it is not what happens to you in life that makes a difference! It is how we react to what happens to us in life that creates our history and - more importantly - our future!

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

I can't change what casting directors do or what producers do. I can only change what I do.

I think every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade... everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.