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.

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

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

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.

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!

[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?".

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.

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

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.