Non Discriminatory Language Quotes & Sayings

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory ... — Asa Don Brown

When dark times bring their gloom, bring your own sunshine. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes, that probably weren't created with any intent towards a larger narrative, and they would get woven into narratives in a really elegant and exciting way. — Ed Helms

The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness ... Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition. — Norman Cousins

We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only 13 percent of high school seniors know what high school seniors should know about American history. — Glenn Beck

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going. — Tomm Moore

Give me back my dead cow! — Kirkland Ciccone

The grass may be greener on the other side, but will the sky be as blue? — Court Young

It is, after all, many centuries since clergymen distinguished themselves on the field of war, and lawyers never have. — Susanna Clarke

An individual's ability to draw is ... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing. — Betty Edwards

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home' ... — Julian Barnes

How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance. — Brian Tracy

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. — Henry David Thoreau

Baseball also has statistical rigor. Its gurus have an immense data set at hand, almost all of it directly related to the performance of players in the game. Moreover, their data is highly relevant to the outcomes they are trying to predict. This may sound obvious, but as we'll see throughout this book, the folks building WMDs routinely lack data for the behaviors they're most interested in. So they substitute stand-in data, or proxies. They draw statistical correlations between a person's zip code or language patterns and her potential to pay back a loan or handle a job. These correlations are discriminatory, and some of them are illegal. — Cathy O'Neil