A Quote by Edward Said

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

Edward Said

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Break Categories Communication Down Human Human Thought Intellectuals Limiting Stereotypes Task Thought

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Edward Said
Palestinian - Writer
November 1, 1935 - September 25, 2003

I think it's so important to have visibility and to break down stereotypes and stigmas and everything that people are so attached to.

Gus Kenworthy

Philosophers sometimes also use 'reductionist' more strictly, to mean 'type-identities' between mental and physical categories, and to exclude 'non-reductive physicalisms' like metaphysical functionalism.

David Papineau

The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.

Eckhart Tolle

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.

Sheila E.

There is a reductive nature to the Internet, and it's not limited to comic book news sites and stuff: it's everybody. There is a reductive nature of it, by which anything that's said very quickly gets reduced down to the next. Reduced, reduced, reduced to the point where rumors with some sense of nuance to them just become fact.

Mark Waid

In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and absolutely beyond any such concept as of a merciful or wrathful personality, chooser of one people over another, comforter of folk who pray, and destroyer of those who do not. Such anthropomorphic attributions of human sentiments and thoughts to a mystery beyond thought is-from the point of view of Indian thought-a style of religion for children.

Joseph Campbell

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

Gloria Steinem

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

John Legend

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Maria Shriver

The global view of cultures is part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

I embrace my Latina background because I know that by doing so we will continue to break down stereotypes that may exist of Latina women.

Eve Torres

I think there's a stereotype of what a biker is, and I think that's one of the reasons people are shocked when they find out that I ride. I've been trying to break down the stereotypes and inspire new riders.

Marisa Miller

I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.

Paige VanZant

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell Baker

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.