Quotes About Categorize

#1. For some people, they may categorize it as "gay love". And for me, I simply see it as love. And there's no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.

Jennifer Beals

#2. I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life ... The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.

Gabe Jennings

#3. I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning.

Nikhil Sharda

#4. Naming a fairy is notoriously difficult, because they don't particularly like to be named. There are so many of them, and humans have always wanted to categorize them. In that way, we think we can have more control over them.

Brian Froud

#5. There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

Douglas Brinkley

#6. We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

George Lakoff

#7. In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

Mark Hamill

#8. I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.

Brooke Shields

#9. In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

Blake McIver Ewing

#10. I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

Steve Martin

#11. Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

Jason Priestley

#12. With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.

Travie McCoy

#13. If we relate to people believing that we can categorize them, we will neither identify nor nuture the parts, the vital parts, of the other that transcends category. The enabling relationship always assumes that the other is never fully knowable.

Irvin D. Yalom

#14. If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.

George Carlin

#15. I guess people would categorize hipster rap just by how people look, skinny jeans and fashion rap. I was never that. In my music I never put the emphasis on clothes.

Fashawn

#16. I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this world where classification is key I want to erase the straight lines So I can be me

Staceyann Chin

#17. Throughout life, we are put into boxes to categorize how people see and know us. This is how stereotypes originate, because people would rather read the labels on the box instead of taking a look and seeing what's inside

Gaby Rodriguez

#18. You might categorize your own fear as anxiety. But while the reality of fear is different for each of us, one thing remains constant: fear robs us of joy. When fear takes center stage, we find it impossible to live in the "what is" because of the "what might be.

Sheila Walsh

#19. I don't understand why some people would even try to categorize you. After watching "Duck Dynasty", who would have thunk?

Shannon L. Alder

#20. Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

Evelyn Glennie

#21. On a scale ranging from very little to too much, Merkin could just about categorize the amount of personal data stored in Master Loo's computer as a shitload.

Sorin Suciu

#22. I submit these assorted pieces of evidence I'm unwilling to categorize!

Lemony Snicket

#23. I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#24. Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Ruth Hubbard

#25. Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.

Robyn Schneider

#26. To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

St. Jerome

#27. Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

Johnny Otis

#28. You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy.

Robyn Schneider

#29. We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

Armin Van Buuren

#30. It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

Desmond Tutu

#31. I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

Rachael Ray

#32. One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.

Beth Moore

#33. We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

Joshua Bell

#34. Love is never static, but always evolving. Love is simultaneously random and ordered, so intangible and yet a part of everything, and when we attempt to limit it or categorize it, we get into trouble.

James Van Praagh

#35. I can't blame you for trying to categorize me. It's a human instinct. It's why scientists are, to this day, completely flabbergasted by the duck-billed platypus: it's furry like a mammal, but lays eggs like a bird. It defies conventional classification.
I AM THE PLATYPUS (Coo coo ka-choo)

Jeff Garvin

#36. I don't categorize people by who I'm allowed to like and who I'm allowed to love.

Leah Raeder

#37. If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.

Haley Reinhart

#38. You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

Kendrick Lamar

#39. It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.

Michael Buble

#40. Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

Earl King

#41. To be irrelevant is to categorize your live into separate pursuit

Sunday Adelaja

#42. To name is to dominate, to categorize, to subjugate and, quite literally, to objectify

Charles Eisenstein

#43. We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.

Stephen Jay Gould

#44. I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

Angel Haze

#45. Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

Michael Barnett

#46. It's hard to categorize the half expressions, the ones which reside in between. But this morning, I'm calling Perry mad by sadwest.

Edmond Manning

#47. I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

Chris Hardwick

#48. Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

John Legend

#49. The mind always wants to categorize and compare,

Eckhart Tolle

#50. We cannot categorize sin if we are to live a life of holiness. God will not let us get away with that kind of attitude.

Jerry Bridges

#51. I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

Gretchen Rubin

#52. I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

Austin Carlile

#53. I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

Alan Dershowitz

#54. If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

Sandra Bullock

#55. I think ... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Tom Stoppard

#56. Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.

Sharon Salzberg

#57. Germans try to categorize films: in a comedy, you just laugh and in a drama, you're not allowed to laugh. I don't believe in that, sometimes we laugh and cry in the same hour.

Fatih Akin

#58. Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

Jonathan Groff

#59. In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

Leigh Anne Tuohy

#60. What's a feminist?" Julie asked.
"Someone who thinks women are fish," Barton replied. He was smiling at Lily. "And that men are bicycles, which makes us basically useless to anyone of the fish persuasion. But it does categorize us as creatures who exist solely for the purpose of being ridden.

Dianne Dixon

#61. I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.

Elayne Boosler

#62. My sound is constantly progressing and maturing. It's hard with all the songs that I have written over the years to compile them all into one album. It's almost impossible to categorize them into one genre.

Asher Monroe

#63. Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.

Ali Banisadr

#64. I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American Indian Movement as some adverse entity, as opposed to it being a manifestation of the desperations of a whole race of people.

Leonard Peltier

#65. For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

Taylor Swift

#66. When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

Ice Cube

#67. It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!

Keegan-Michael Key

#68. I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.

Benjamin Carson

#69. Males categorize their worlds by counting, naming, and organizing the objects they confront. Women, in addition to personalizing their topics, talk in a more dynamic way, focusing on how their topics change. Discussions of change require more verbs.

James W. Pennebaker

#70. In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave] ... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#71. I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

Kevin Spacey

#72. Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Dorothy Allison

#73. I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I'm able to compete in?

Mindy Kaling

#74. I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

Roger Ebert

#75. Life is funny. Life isn't categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don't know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or ... I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know

Jennifer Aniston

#76. You cannot understand what makes things live when you must first rob their life. And so when man learned to categorize, number and dissect nature, he lost its living quality and no longer felt a part of it.

Jane Roberts

#77. The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody

Clay Shirky

#78. People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react ... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

Arthur M. Jolly

#79. I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

Laura Nyro

#80. To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

Craig D. Lounsbrough