Jenny Shipley Quotes

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

I think people with varying experiences need to be creating.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

I'm obviously a white woman with privilege. I want to make sure I always collaborate with people who aren't like me so we can create a work that isn't one dimensional.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't understand, you don't interact with. If you don't have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who don't look like me in my writers room. I think it's important to have a group of voices, of people who can dissent.

Diversity is essential to the success of the news industry, and journalists must include diverse voices in their coverage in order to reach a broader audience. We have stories to tell, but many in our audience have stopped listening because they can tell that we're not talking about them.

If you are not diverse and you are not listening to all voices and have your ear to the ground, you're not going to make the best decisions.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.

Diversity is not a skin thing, necessarily. Diversity is you have people around the table who have different backgrounds and different experiences and think differently.

We need to educate our audience. It's so important to have diversity. Let's not fear different voices.

I think it's important to have diversity in comics for a thousand reasons. It's not just some airy conceptual thing: it's important to reflect the humanity of the readership.

I want to bring my color and background to the table because it makes life - and entertainment - more interesting.

As it's related to publishing, I think magazines really benefit from having a staff with a range of different perspectives and cultural references so that any reader can feel like there is someone on the masthead they can relate to, someone they can trust to speak up for them. It's great to see that idea being embraced more and more.

What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, everyone and anyone is around. So if people get to see themselves on the stage, they'll want to come.