Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is, and the better it succeeds.

In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.

For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

If you have no road map, you have to create your own.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

I get influence from everybody and everything.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

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

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

You can put me in anything and I will make it better.

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

We know from our business with clients around the world that when companies bring together people of different genders, races, cultures, and perspectives, we are smarter, more creative, more innovative, and more relevant.

Even if somebody is maybe a little less qualified, you can bring them in, you can teach them, and it will also make your work better because you'll have different perspectives. Even if somebody is less talented, they're coming at it from a completely different perspective, and that helps your work.