Quotes About Categorizing

#1. The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories - gay and straight.

Gore Vidal

#2. I am great lover.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.

Richard Leakey

#4. One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

Joseph Conrad

#5. I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me.

Miranda July

#6. There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

Piers Morgan

#7. Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

Melissa Leo

#8. Every time I pray, I ask for forgiveness. I'm a sinner. I sin every single day. But I do know that God loves me. I do know that God forgives me. It helps me in my every day life because there's nothing anyone can do to me that I can't forgive them for.

Mark Teixeira

#9. Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny.

Jim Carrey

#10. We must bask in the magnificence of what is seen and sensed, instead of always memorizing and categorizing.

Wayne W. Dyer

#11. Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Tom Hiddleston

#12. Maybe there came a point in life where you had to quit categorizing whole groups of people by a few bad experiences.

Lisa Wingate

#13. In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

Alex Berenson

#14. The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

Jamaica Kincaid

#15. Luckily, I have two of the coolest parents around. They're so open about having any and all experiences, so they never hindered us in any way by categorizing or judging anything.

John Krasinski

#16. We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Jonah Goldberg

#17. Now I saw this categorizing of my freezer food as a sign of the true chaos in my head.

Abraham Verghese

#18. When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

Donald Trump

#19. Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true ... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.

Michael Bloomberg

#21. I disagreed with the conduct of the war, with bombing civilians, categorizing everyone as the enemy or simply as armed men, with the racism and the disregard for those people.

Joe Glenton

#22. Men made life far too difficult when they insisted on neatly categorizing their emotions. When emotions became complicated, they brooded and struggled so mightily in an attempt to simplify them again - when, given time, everything would sort itself out and slide into its place.

Meljean Brook

#23. 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

#24. Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

Sylvester Stallone

#25. I could at times be overly emotional, but was lucky to have the kind of orderly mind that is good at categorizing things

Julia Child

#26. The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Chris Chocola

#27. Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

T. S. Eliot

#28. Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.

Uta Hagen

#29. I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

Walter Martin

#30. Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.

Gore Vidal

#31. The First World became a popular phrase in about the 1970s and '80s. The World Bank then began categorizing countries in different categories, advanced to the least developed.

Lee Kuan Yew

#32. Stop categorizing and labeling! This is your way to avoid the unknown but brings the risk to avoid the new!

Rossana Condoleo