Diversity Quotes
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I've always found diversity more interesting than specialisation. I like mixing it up across years, within days, within weeks - that's what stimulates me, gives me energy.
Chris Liddell
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Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
Jacob Batalon
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Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity.
Deeyah Khan
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Abraham Lincoln
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American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.
Linda Ronstadt
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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Desmond Tutu
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People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.
Octavia Spencer
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Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.
Mark Pagel
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Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.
Joel Robuchon
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A curious paradox: people have only the narrowest private interest in mind when they act, yet they are at the same time more than ever determined in their behavior by the instincts of the mass. ... The diversity of individual goals is immaterial in face of the identity of the determining forces.
Walter Benjamin
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Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.
Ramakrishna
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I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.
Daniel Lyons
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When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
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There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.
E. O. Wilson
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The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell. We want Ward 8 to be the model of diversity.
Marion Barry
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
Octavia Spencer
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I feel strongly about the need for diversity, and with good reason. I'm from a generation of women that found it exhilarating to shatter the glass ceiling. We viewed obstacles as opportunities and earned our seat at the leadership table.
Denise Morrison
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There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
Binyavanga Wainaina
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My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity-of the wonder of innumerable forms of life-has always thrilled me beyond anything else.
Oliver Sacks
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It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
Carson Kressley
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Living through the intersections of cultural diversity has given me an intimate understanding of the dynamics of living between the dimensions of East and West, traditional and modern, and political and spiritual.
Deeyah Khan
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Ambassador Kennedy brings to the Boeing board professional, diplomatic, and global perspectives that are highly valued in our rapidly evolving and increasingly competitive global business environment. Her diversity of experience and accompanying insights will broaden and strengthen our board in its deliberative and oversight roles for the company.
Dennis Muilenburg
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There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You all think alike. You agree. People are arguing that the banking crisis was because too many of the relevant bodies were thinkalikes, and that if they'd had more diversity, maybe it wouldn't have happened.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell