Categories Quotes

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

The good is not a category that interests me.

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again.

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.

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 of the categories?".

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?

Modernity is a qualitative,
not a chronological,
category.

Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

You can be rich and not be famous. You can be famous and not be rich. But to be rich and famous is a special category all by itself.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

AI's ability to recognize visual categories and images is now pretty close to what human beings can manage, and probably better than a lot of people's, actually. AI can have more knowledge of detailed categories, like animals and so on.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

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

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".

I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.

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.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

The Clash, in particular, transcends any category.

I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where the screenplays seemed to be in the “uncompleted” category yet still got sold and made into movies, so I generally refer too all screenplays as “sold” or “unsold.” But that's just my own filing system.