Quotes About Categorization

I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was reading at what age. It's more of an intellectual thing of wanting to be free to write and think without being too bound by categorisation. I don't think I'm made for these times; I feel more like an old-fashioned writer.

I'm crazily organised with my wardrobe. Everything is hung in categories: dresses, jackets, shirts, skirts and trousers are all hung in order, and they're then hung in colour order, too, so that when I'm looking for something I know exactly where it is.

Filing in alphabetical order is better than running around and saying, 'I know it was blue and I was eating something when I had it.

Honestly, I think they need to work to improve the categories. If the driver goes from the go-kart to F3 one year and then to F1, why do we have GP3, GP2?

I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

Rap's the only music that they categorize like that. That's one thing that I hate, like, down South rap, or up North rap. Country is just country rather than wherever it's from. R&B, you don't call it Atlanta R&B, you know what I mean. So that's already like a shot at our culture.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.

People wanted to put me in one category, I think because it was easier for them.

As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

I've said no to a lot of things because they didn't make me a leading man. They put me in a category I wasn't interested in.

Rarely when you label a group as something does that whole group really fall into that category.

People seem to want to give 'Flowers' a comedy or a comedy-drama label. I suppose it's closer to comedy-drama, but it feels like it requires a whole new definition all of its own.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

People try to make names for things they don't understand

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.

Tendemos a encasillar en una categoría preexistente cualquier relación nueva que entablamos.

We tend to slot any new relationship we come across into a preexisting category. We see what is general or common about it; whereas the participants see—feel—only what is individual and particular to them.

His entire life was probably sorted into neat little columns.

They just seemed to define themselves by not being the other faction.

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.