Nahnatchka Khan Quotes

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.

If we go and see hundreds of different market resources, you are seeing hundreds of different points of view, and once in a while, my experience is, you will come across one or two that are just outstanding, and you never would have thought of them.

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

I need eclectic people in my life.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

I feel like there's so many voices, and it's necessary for there to be a lot of different voices because we can't all like the same art. That would just be so boring... If anybody wants to hear it, I'm here. It makes for a more interesting world for there to be more than one kind of singer.

'The Five' is so special is because we all have such diverse backgrounds. It's such a nice mix of men, of women, and the variety of where we come from, different walks of life, different occupations, and certainly different viewpoints. That's what makes it so unique.

Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.

When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

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 entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

It's just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a different perspective, a viewpoint on life, or inspire you. I mean, what would the world be like if we were all the same? I think it would be very boring.

Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

Different strokes for different folks.

Ten men, ten minds

So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.

I think the most diverse group will produce the best product; I firmly believe that.

One size doesn't fit all, and I don't have a monopoly over good ideas.