Mark Hughes Quotes

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

I can appreciate anybody's passion for anything.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.

Sometimes, there isn't respect for our ways, but you can't change people.

Managers have to demand more of their HR departments, and they have to demand more of themselves. And we all have to be open to hiring people that don't look like us and that don't sound like us, and not find that threatening.

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.

If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.

No matter if someone has personal feelings about my sexuality or how they view me, it's all of our job to continue to show up in spaces where we can say, 'You know what? I can figure out how to try to work with you.'

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.

One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.