Quote by Michael Lewis Download Open image ““If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification.”” — Michael Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“More often than not, labels dehumanise people by reducing them to lazy stereotypes.” — Francesca Martínez Copy Share Image
“The wise do not classify. The wise do not want to be classified. Classifying people is not classy.” — Lisa Bevere Copy Share Image
“Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“No, I mean, this is a problem that most people have. A problem of the human condition. We get ahold of some kind of… — Phillip DePoy Copy Share Image
“We do not need to erase our assumptions, prejudices, or biases. We must simply learn to expand our awareness beyond them.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“It is useful to remember, however, that neglecting valid stereotypes inevitably results in suboptimal judgments. Resistance to stereotyping is a laudable moral position, but… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Stereotyped prejudices, fine to right made, they spoil my stomach.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it. — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“At other places management says, ‘Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?’ Lewie was not only willing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“BILLY WOULD SAY later that his wife left him because she was unnerved by his intensity—that she could even see it in his hands… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
