Categories Quotes · Page 2

. . . the membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an…

— Saunders Mac Lane

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's…

— Tom Freston

The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond…

— David Richo

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force…

— Dean Spade

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

— Anton Chekhov

Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held…

— Michel Foucault

There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for…

— Jan C. Ting

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of…

— Erich Fromm

I wish people wouldn't just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion.…

— Lucy Liu

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

— Shoshana Zuboff

The person that I most admire is Jesus Christ. He is the only perfect Person. There is simply no comparison. The difference…

— Paul Washer

...The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases…

— Hardin B. Jones

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

— Edward Said

There's just a law to the universe. We can have the San Andreas rip tonight. You've nothing to do with that. We…

— Matt Drudge

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

— Johannes Kepler

There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain…

— Pope Francis

Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text…

— Yuri Lotman

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. I don't…

— Al Gore

In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world…

— Sara Blakely

I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could…

— Billy Wilder

There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy. The process whereby…

— Louis Kentner

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.

— Terence McKenna

You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman

— Christian Louboutin

When it comes to making more money, most people look at the world and see the same opportunities they've seen before: typically,…

— Joe Vitale