Quotes About Diversity

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

If I couldn't get to where I wanted to by being my organic self - which is a smart, funny, unapologetically black woman - then I felt like it's not worth doing it if I can't do it the most organic way possible. Which is why I left the music business.

People's lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can't be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.

Eventbrite is 50-50 male-female, and this has been accomplished organically.

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just to satisfy a particular condition. What you want more than anything is to develop women in the organisation who will, when they get to the top, be fully capable of delivering and doing the job effectively.

In politics, during my organisational roles, I have never seen gender bias within my organisation.

There cannot be any company or organisation where 100% of the people are sadhus or mahatmas.

I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.

I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.

I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.

It's not just about showbusiness - everywhere you go people are discriminated against. And if by having an organised voice against inequality and a lack of diversity we might be able to push that down - how brilliant would it be?

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

We actually probably do nothing very special for women. But what we do in a very special manner is to remain an absolute gender-neutral, merit-based organization.

ICICI has been a meritocracy. So, a huge amount a lot of responsibilities, big roles, challenges, have been given to women, not because they are men or women or so on, but they were just given to people who have - who the organization believes has the capability to perform.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it.

Working with different communities and organizations allows us to raise awareness in a nuanced and impactful way, while also giving us broad reach.

I wish MMA was like boxing with fighters from different organizations being able to fight each other. It would be more interesting for the sport, the sport would grow more, everyone would be able to fight everyone.

If everything is too organized or too perfect, I get bored.