Diversity Quotes - Page 29

I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

When I get that question, about diversity, I don't go, "Yeah, well you know they don't pay me." That's not my story. I own six properties; Hollywood has been damn good to me. Now you can ask me, "Have they paid you what you deserve?" That's the question, but you'd have to go to the studios, I don't know. I do the work!

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean neighborhoods, among people like themselves, around people with whom they feel comfortable. That can be exclusive, it could be exclusionary. It could be racist, classist, genocidal, and so on. Most people like comfort. Now what provides a sense of comfort varies. I do think that people who like living in cities like small-scale human interaction and they like the social dimensions of aesthetic diversity that Jane Jacobs wrote about.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.