Best Categorizing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Personally, I think knowing the difference between a racist and a saint is kind of important. But when Jesus again and again says things like the last shall be first, and the first shall be last, and the poor are blessed, and the rich are cursed, and that prostitutes make great dinner guests, it makes me wonder if our need for pure black-and-white categories is not true religion but maybe actually a sin. Knowing what category to place hemlock in might help us know whether it's safe to drink, but knowing what category to place ourselves and others in does not help us know God in the way that the church so often has tried to convince us it does.”

Judgment Categorizing

Book:Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

Source: Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

“We discovered that people learn concepts faster and remember them better when they can categorize them into groups. That’s prototypical top-down cognition.”

Learning Memory Categorizing

Book:Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick

Source: Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick

“Sometimes, it is easier for people to believe lies then deal with the uncomfortableness of their own fear of action. These type of people feel uncomfortable unless everyone is the same or God presents them with what is easy and obvious. It is a life long coping mechanism for the greatest fear of all--regret.”

Regret Anger Reactions Labels Settling Bias Label Categorizing Sign Seekers

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“There is no them and us, it is just us.”

Together Team Society Criminals Differences Between People Categorizing

Book:The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

Source: The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

“If you want to help someone move on, you don’t label people as good, bad, worst or best. This categorizes people, rather than experiences with that person. People are not all evil or all good. You don’t teach compassion by categorizing people. Empathy and honest open communication are the only way to live your life. If you’re blaming someone then you haven’t let go of your pain long enough to really try on theirs. However, if you must believe that the only type of person that brings you difficult lessons or experiences in life are those that are bad or worse, then take the time to read the bible a little closer. Christ, put a few people in their place, in order to make point.”

“The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.”

Fiction Written Majority Commerce Categorizing

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“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.”

People Humans Boundaries Categories Considering Preventing Revising Categorizing

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.”

Way Mind Turns Names Easy Color Taste Easy Way Categorizing

Author:Ali Banisadr

“The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.) Denial of Agency: She didn't write it. Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it. Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about. False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"? Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).”

Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing

“Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorising them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.”

Knows Bits Term Class Son Dad Cameras My Dad Sections Categorizing

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.”

People Together Black Ability Race Vicious Inventing Categorizing

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“There were a lot of apocalypses that didn't make it into this assemblage because they didn't suit the world. And defining that world and figuring out what its wobbly borders were was a long-term and exhaustive process. I had all of these different ways of categorizing the apocalypses I had made. I had a period of time where I cut them up.”

World Way Long Made Different Process Term Cutting Periods Suits Borders Different Ways Long Term Apocalypse Defining Assemblage Categorizing

Author:Lucy Corin

“Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.”

People Country Form Christianity Enemy One Thing Devoted Primitive Monotheism Categorizing

Author:Gore Vidal

“I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it up to some genre standard.”

Ifs Trying Mind Long My Own Comfortable Standards Relation Genre Categorizing

Author:Karin Tidbeck

“The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.”

Ifs Trying Whole Movement Politically Correct Categorizing

Author:Nat Hentoff

“Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.”

Lost Voice Fingerprints Bogart Categorizing

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.”

Thinking Want Winning Danger Terrorist Categorizing

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.”

Needs Race Class Gender Sexuality Categories Categorizing

Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

“There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.”

Way Different War Serious News Different Ways Famine Just War Categorizing

Author:Piers Morgan

“People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.”

“Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.”

Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

“If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.”

Ifs World Way Ideas Might Ability Answers Creative Students Listening Discovery New Ways Hypothesis Evaluate Creative Ideas Adequacy Categorizing

Author:Ellen Langer

“We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.”

Way Trying Reality Species Categorizing

Author:Jonah Goldberg