Quotes About Association

Darwin thought that the perfect equality among the Fuegians was fatal to any hope of their becoming civilized;43 or, as the Fuegians might have put it, civilization would have been fatal to their equality.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

And so if Cash nails the box up, she is not a rabbit.

Shreve had a brush, so I didn't have to open the bag any more.

Maelcum a rude boy, said the other, an' a righteous tug pilot.

You can't get clever men to fight such a system, as it makes too much sense to 'em.

In Franklins, a million weighs twenty-two pounds. If you want to keep your weight down, go with the Swiss thousand-franc notes.

The yellow Lego was brick-shaped again. Pretending innocence.

Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.

You're a publicist," she said. "She's a celebrity. That's interspecies.

Navy stuff," she said, and her grin gleamed in the shadows. "Navy stuff. I got a friend down here who was in the navy, name's Jones. I think you'd better meet him. He's a junkie, though. So we'll have to take him something." "A junkie?" "A dolphin.

This toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch.

The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. On the other hand, the same thing recurring on different days, in different contexts, read, recited on, referred to again and again, related to other things and reviewed, gets well wrought into the mental structure.

The art of remembering is the art of thinking and by adding, with Dr.Pick, that, when we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

Come on," said Billy. "This is batshit." He pleaded. "A religion about squid?

This is called data mining." She said the last words in English. "Which of us is the canary?

I paid it nuts, Billy. What would you think I'd pay a squirrel?

Generative metaphors and proverbs both derive their power from a clever substitution: They substitute something easy to think about for something difficult.

punch line: The most basic way to make people care is to form an association between something they don't yet care about and something they do care about.

Familiarity and memorability are often at odds.

The most basic way to make people care is to form an association between something they don't yet care about and something they do care about. We