Categories Quotes

464 Categories quotes by 405 unique authors

Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no. — Seth Godin
When you had an ‘anam cara,’ (soul friend), your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way… — John O'Donohue
Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for… — D.E. Stevenson
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power. — Eric Hoffer
Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category… — Jacques Ellul
Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we… — Stephen Jay Gould
In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought… — Terry Pratchett
You wanna blow money? Put it in a 'blow' category in your budget. But at least admit it on paper! — Dave Ramsey
Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. — Robert Jay Lifton
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled… — Rene Cassin
I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor… — Jeremy Brett
Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other. — Karl Radek
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm… — Ellen Langer
If you're pretty happy, but you have a little Chihuahua that's always biting you on the ankles, still that's pretty good isn't it? I'm going… — Jack Handey
Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner… — Howard Gardner
Organized medicine quickly adopted the stance that his alleged "cures" fell into three categories: those who never had cancer in the first place; those who… — Kenny Ausubel
Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces… — Alexander Kotov
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I… — Zhuangzi
Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening… — Sheri L. Dew
Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity — Clay Shirky
The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic… — Tavis Smiley
You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two… — Unknown Author
A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to… — Albert Camus
Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story. — Derek Webb

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