Quotes About Association

One of the fundamentals of a trained memory is what we call Original Awareness. Anything of which you are Originally Aware cannot be forgotten. And, applying our systems of association will force Original Awareness. Observation is essential to Original Awareness—anything you wish to remember must first be observed.

Since association forces Original Awareness—and since being Originally Aware is the same as having something register in your mind in the first place, at the moment it occurs—then forming an instant association must solve the problem of absentmindedness.

Bealeton. Another sleepy hamlet was about to have its name written down in history in letters of blood.

I also doubt it's Nessie as he's none too fond of Greek salad."

Choose friends by their character and socks by their colour.

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

It's just a guess," said Bramble after a moment, "but I don't think he's in the mood to see us.

than picking a song. "Aren't you excited to try out?" I ask her. But before she can answer, Mr. Knight tells everyone

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Chevette qui surchauffait. Il arrivait du nord de la Californie

writers instinctively tried to generate plots from events around them as a means of survival, the way a pigeon is always searching for food, pecking at everything in sight. A spy lacked the imagination or the drive for that kind of free-association creativity.

The other night, the cats were howling. I turned over and convinced myself to go back to sleep because they weren't my patients.

You have this scent" Hana said quietly, "I used to think it was your perfume. Joy, ne?" "I still wear that." "I know," Hana said, and Etsuko resisted the urge to sniff her own wrists. "It's not just the perfume, though, it's all the other creams and things that you wear, and it makes up this smell. I used to walk around department stores wondering what it was. The smell of mama." Book 3, p401

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what has transpired - a word which here means 'happened, and made everybody sad'.

Literature doesn't exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing.

With any word, there are subconscious associations, which simply means that certain words make you think of certain things, even if you don't want to.

Although this table contains a great many elements, from the element oxygen, which is found in the air, to the element aluminum, which is found in cans of soda, the table if elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element if surprise.

Mob psychology," Sunny said, remembering a term Klaus had taught her shortly before she took her first steps.

There are so many objects that I find that I have forgotten about until they are in my hands again, and they remind me of times in my life I had otherwise forgotten, the way you will visit a place you think is new and then something, a sound or smell or some tiny detail, will make you realize it is familiar after all.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what has transpired - a word which here means 'happened, and made everybody sad