I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
There's something to me with categorization - it stops you from thinking about the thing that is actually happening. — Ana Lily Amirpour Copy Share Image
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning.” — Nikhil Sharda Copy Share Image
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“The human compulsion to group people and objects together was ingrained in our being since we evolved. We need to group things,… — Charlie Caruso Copy Share Image
As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Recommendations and categorization are both useful features to seek out when trying to make a difficult decision, because they can benefit our… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
There's the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“There are underwater cables that seem to emerge and interweave the various objects drifting and rotating in space. I can imagine their… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The… — Gayle Rubin Copy Share Image
Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement. — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time. — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“People love walking around with labels attached to them by others or labels they give themselves. They are prisoners of roles they… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Because our minds process information solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category.” — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
“Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
The internet does not adhere to the inherent, necessary asymmetry of high-versus-low-art categorizations that we use in the cultural sector: in a… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
We can't use the word normal anymore because it's sort of come to be politically incorrect, because normal implies a classification, and… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I get tired of being asked to be an expert on categories, when it comes to awards season. It's quite funny to… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
People will less and less need to put an identity on genres, such as "hip hop," "electronica" and so forth. That's what… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when… — Anita Nair Copy Share Image
Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
