Quotes About Association

psychologists believe that intuition is a rapid-fire, unconscious associating process—like a mental puzzle.2 The brain makes an observation, scans its files, and matches the observation with existing memories, knowledge, and experiences. Once it puts together a series of matches, we get a "gut" on what we've observed.

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. —Rilke

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

They required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy

To use an obsolete Latin word, I might say, Ex Oriente lux; ex Occidente FRUX. From the East light; from the West fruit.

post hoc ergo propter hoc

Half the thinking process, as pointed out, depends on the occurrence of suggestions. The occurrence of suggestions depends on how ideas are associated in a man's mind.This depends to some extent on the education and the whole past life and environment of the individual

All method can do is to awaken the most fruitful associations of ideas already in mind. Hence the more methods we adopt—the greater the number of views we take of any problem—the more solutions will suggest themselves. There is one further reason why we should take as many different viewpoints as possible.

You decline?" he cried, almost defiantly. " `Decline' isn't the word. A man doesn't decline an insult.

typical frivolous always ended by sacrificing to vulgar pleasures. She

Nothing could be happier, in general, than to seem dazzling, but she had a perverse unwillingness to glitter by arrangement.

There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

George Murphy tagged that name 'Butch' on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.

Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.

When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.

Purple and yellow are my colors.

Did I haze the Miz? Hell yes!

I am aware that there was a general opinion among people that I was close to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, among other Left leaders. Yes, I was close to them because I had to work closely with the state government.

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.