Categories Quote by Kurt Elling Download Open image “The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.” — Kurt Elling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Categories Idea
We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it. — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't. — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words... — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and its a totally understandable need because… — Armin van Buuren Copy Share Image
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… — Armin van Buuren Copy Share Image
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose. — William James Copy Share Image
Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people. — John Legend Copy Share Image
You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple. — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way.… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I don't really have a more intellectualized approach. After the fact, I can sure talk about stuff a lot - but when I make… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get up and… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
A lot of people are put off by the idea of scat singing. Either that or it's something to be made fun of. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
You want to be doing your best work whatever field of the arts you're in because your life's going to be over all too… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time… — Martin A. Siegel Copy Share Image
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand. — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image