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Quotes About Diversity

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
~ Maira Kalman
A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.
~ Grayson Perry
What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.
~ Jimmy Connors
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
~ Sholom Aleichem
God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
~ Meister Eckhart
We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.
~ Jordan Peele
Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.
~ Ruth Benedict
I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.
~ Jerry West
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.
~ FKA twigs
The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.
~ Max De Pree
Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
~ Antoine Fuqua
The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.
~ David Bowie
People work better when they are afforded to be themselves
~ Stella McCartney
I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.
~ Sandra Bernhard
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
~ Taylor Swift
And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.
~ Terrence Howard
I'm not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you've got something to say and the work is good, it doesn't matter where you come from
~ Tom Hiddleston
On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: "An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'"
~ Charles Darwin
I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
~ Fay Godwin
On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.
~ Jim Ramstad
I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
~ John Mellencamp
Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.
~ John P. Kotter