Diversity Quotes - page 18

We bring many different perspectives to our work. Our diversity is our strength. We are limited in our authority. We have a very modest budget. And we have no armies. But armed with the strength of our convictions, we will continue to speak truth to power. And we will continue to carry out our mandate with independence and objectivity. (Mohamed ElBaradei)
L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation. View quote
James Frey
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling. View quote
Moby
Governments have an obligation to preserve their populations' cultures as world heritage in accordance with the aim of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote diversity and oppose cultural imperialism. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
[Computers] are developing so rapidly that even computer scientists cannot keep up with them. It must be bewildering to most mathematicians and engineers... In spite of the diversity of the applications, the methods of attacking the difficult problems with computers show a great unity, and the name of Computer Sciences is being attached to the discipline as it emerges. It must be understood, however, that this is still a young field whose structure is still nebulous. The student will find a great many more problems than answers. View quote
George Forsythe
I believe that we think much more with the instruments provided by our culture than we do with our bodies, and hence the much greater diversity of thought in the world. Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking. View quote
Susan Sontag
Without discipline there can be no greatness. Without diversity there can be no freedom. Greatness for the enterprise, freedom for the individual - these are the two themes, contrasting but not incompatible, that make up the history of science and the history of religion. View quote
Freeman Dyson
The most salient features of all these enterprises are discipline and diversity. View quote
Freeman Dyson
Science has as many competing styles as painting or poetry. The diversity of science also finds a parallel in the diversity of religion. View quote
Freeman Dyson
The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain. View quote
Elinor Ostrom
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. (Chinua Achebe)
Diversity is one of the high priorities that I expected everybody in the leadership position at the university to be committed to. View quote
Robert J. Birgeneau
I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity. View quote
Jose Manuel Barroso
Company mentoring programs are also a key tool in promoting diversity at the workplace. View quote
Jay Samit
A collective learning machine achieves its feats by using five elements... (1) conformity enforcers; (2) diversity generators; (3) inner-judges; (4) resource shifters; and (5) intergroup tournaments. View quote
Howard Bloom
A few musical notes can morph into countless new songs, and a small set of vocabulary can create a congeries of poems. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations. View quote
Newton Lee
Diversity emanates beauty. View quote
Newton Lee
Unfairness builds character and brings diversity to the otherwise homogeneous and isotropic existence. View quote
Newton Lee
Transhumanism supports infinite diversity in infinite combinations from all ethnicities and races, the religious and the atheists, conservatives and liberals, the young and the old regardless of socioeconomic status, gender identity, or any other individual qualities. View quote
Newton Lee
The meaning of life is manifested in many different ways-infinite diversity in infinite combinations. View quote
Newton Lee
Diversity and integration are also needed in science and technology. Pride and prejudice are obstacles to scientific advancements and truth seeking. (Newton Lee)
Good doth with evil alternate, And, deeply pondering, we shall learn 'tis this Diversity that makes the world so fair. View quote
Ubaldo Mari
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. View quote
Stanley Baldwin
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. View quote
W. H. Auden
The purpose here is to demonstrate the diversity of classical formulae which appeared in architectural design, and if we look at classical architecture as a repertoire of forms rather than statements of specific design credos we can challenge teleological constructions of stylistic histories. The method of grouping the architecture from given periods of time under general stylistic labels has, without doubt, been the backbone of the discipline of architectural history. And when used skilfully and carefully it can provide useful punctuation marks in the lengthy and complex narrative that is the subject-matter of the history of western building. Yet it is only one of many tools with which to explore social and cultural contexts. View quote
Dana Arnold