“When we include and listen to diverse ways of thinking, we make the impossible, possible.”
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Bob Swan1
American business executive 1960Related quotes
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Stalin's article "Our purposes" Pravda #1, (22 January 1912)
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader
Sydney, (22 January 2017)[citation needed].
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Context: There is no phenomenon in the universe that does not intimately concern us, from a pebble resting at the bottom of the ocean, to the movement of a galaxy millions of light years away. Walt Whitman said, "I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars...." These words are not philosophy. They come from the depths of his soul. He also said, "I am large, I contain multitudes." This might be called a meditation on "interfacing endlessly interwoven." All phenomena are interdependent. When we think of a speck of dust, a flower, or a human being, our thinking cannot break loose from the idea of unity, of one, of calculation. We see a line drawn between one and many, one and not one. But if we truly realize the interdependent nature of the dust, the flower, and the human being, we see that unity cannot exist without diversity. Unity and diversity interpenetrate each other freely. Unity is diversity, and diversity is unity. This is the principle of interbeing.
“We begin with the possible, and move gradually towards the impossible.”
Robert Fripp (1946) English guitarist, composer and record producer
The Six Principles of the Performance Event
“We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.”
Aga Khan IV (1936) 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism
Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,(15 May 2006)]
Steven Weinberg (1933) American theoretical physicist
Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999)
Harold Powers (1928–2007) American academic
Harold Powers, "Language Models and Musical Analysis", p.54-55.