Quotes About Association

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It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information. For example, some people believe in what's called the 'twenty-three enigma.' That everything is related to the number twenty-three. It's a surprisingly involved belief.

You now see everything through a veil of associations about things, projected over a direct, simple awareness. You've 'seen it all before'; it's like watching a movie for the twentieth time. You see only memories of things, so you become bored. Boredom, you see, is fundamental nonawareness of life; boredom is awareness, trapped in the mind. You'll have to lose your mind before you can come to your senses.

Tell me everything you know about the horse, Bottom-san

which I look upon with contempt as the effect of manifest ignorance and enthusiasm;

26. Kieran C. R. Fox, "Is Meditation Associated with Altered Brain Structure? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Morphometric Neuroimaging in Meditation Practitioners," Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 43 (2014): 48–73.

classic model of the stages of creativity roughly translates to three modes of focus: orienting, where we search out and immerse ourselves in all kinds of inputs; selective attention on the specific creative challenge; and open awareness, where we associate freely to let the solution emerge—then home in on the solution.

Familiarity breeds liking.

Then when you want free association, you could stretch your patient out the way the barber does to lather up his customer, and when the fifty minutes are up, you could tilt the chair forward again and hand him a mirror so he can see what he looks like on the outside after you've shaved his ego.

All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

I can't tell you his age but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Without propriety of scale, and the acceptance of limits which that implies, there can be no form – and here we reunite science and art.

Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.

She stabbed Redford in the back with lefty scissors!

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We human beings have a great defect, which is that we are all too often willing to both spread and enforce our ideas with violence.

We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.

I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly.

MAN is not willingly a political animal. The human male associates with his fellows less by desire than by habit, imitation, and the compulsion of circumstance; he does not love society so much as he fears solitude.

Doubt is not a very agreeable state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

We shall never have any experience which we shall not interpret in terms of space and time and cause; but we shall never have any philosophy if we forget that these are not things, but modes of interpretation and understanding.