Categories Quotes - Page 24

• Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, Needs, Want

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• Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

  Terence McKenna

  Games, Miracle, Energy

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• It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Political, Cult

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

  Terence McKenna

  Style, Possibility, Motifs

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• The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

  Mary Roach

  Imbeciles, England, Twenties

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

  Stephen Colbert

  Class, People, Different

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• I do shop online! But I’m shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So you know for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don’t really shop that much for clothing online.

  Nate Berkus

  Kings, Home, Shopping

  "Nate Berkus on Selling His Old Prada, Hermès, and More". Interview with Julie Ma, www.thecut.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Michael Bay and his team are experts in exciting tentpole-type film and television, and the combination of their film experience plus the great television writers that have come on will be really successful in bringing us something really unique. We are looking to put on these big canvas shows, and Black Sails is going to fit into that. The scripts have been terrific. Everything that we are trying to do is incredibly ambitious, and this is certainly in that category.

  Chris Albrecht

  Team, Successful, Unique

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

  Sam Walton

  Hate, Fall, Use

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.98, Bantam

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• John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.

  Sam Kinison

  Doe, Fats, Goodman

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• One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.

  Pope John Paul II

  Animal, Environmental, Wish

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• There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

  Beatrice Warde

  Art, Firsts, Typography

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• The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You get to determine those yourself. The only limitations are whatever particular talents you happen to have and how hard you're willing to work. And if you let others define who you ought to be, or what you ought to be because they put you in a category, they see your race, they see your gender and they put you in a category. You shouldn't let that happen.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Race, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.

  Amber Heard

  Beautiful, Sexy, Strong

  "Amber Heard THE RUM DIARY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.

  Billy Sherwood

  Dad, Vegas, Play

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• Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.

  John Maxwell Hamilton

  News, Levels, Kind

  "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.

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• I think he supersedes Peyton Manning but let's not throw Tom Brady in the category with Joe Montana, who was 4-for-4. He's royalty.

  Deion Sanders

  Thinking, Nfl, Montana

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• I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, People, Autism

  "My Interview with Temple Grandin About Autism". Interview with Connie, parentcoachingforautism.com. September 27, 2013.

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• while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Men, Class

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group.

  Alfre Woodard

  Character, Thinking, Doctors

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• the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.

  Carter Heyward

  God, Believe, Thinking

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• Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mistake, Book, Learning

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.

  Michelle Shocked

  Differences, Knowing, Fit

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• When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

  Carol Tavris

  Food, Two, Worry

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• I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things for me to try to get right at once, and rules help me to stay organized. But my favorite rule of all is that, ultimately, there are no rules.

  Bruce Holland Rogers

  Writing, Advice, Trying

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