Top 305 Associations Quotes & Sayings

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.

Associations are both subtle and powerful.

Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations.

Look carefully at the closest associations in your life, for that is the direction you are heading.

The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.

Ultimately I think clubs, boards, associations have to do more to provide an equal platform for women to get interviews for jobs.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.

Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute....At the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.

A tenor player named Bud Revels there at the time. A lot of really nice associations amongst the students. Garry Dial was a returning student. He actually got me on Red Rodney's band subbing a little bit. I gigged some with Red when I was 21 in 1988. So I had a lot of nice associations that came from [ Laguardia School of Arts]. But a lot of my education was going on in the clubs. Hearing music and sitting in.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

Pemex becomes a productive company of the state, but it will have competition and can make associations with the private sector.

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

I feel adventure associations in our country can be the best but somehow are lazy about getting their act together.

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.

Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.

Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.

No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

[On Paris:] It exists, constant, eternal, surrounding us who live in it, and it is in us. We love it or hate it, but we cannot escape it. It is a circle of associations in which man exists, being himself a circle of associations. Having entered it and come out of it we are not what we were before knowing it: it devoured us, we devoured it, and the problem is not did we or didn't we want it. We consumed each other. It courses in our blood.

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

The IPL has given a lot not just to players and associations, but also to the overall economy of the country.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

I have incredibly positive associations with the military.

Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.