Quotes About Association

Familiar Memories "Re-mind" Us to Reproduce the Same Experiences

That event—where something outside of you changes something inside of you—is called an associative memory. If we keep repeating the process over and over again, by association the outer stimulus can become so strong or reinforced that we can replace the aspirin for a sugar pill that looks like an aspirin, and it will produce an automatic inner response (lessening the pain of the headache). That's one way the placebo works.

Once we become more suggestible, we're naturally associating something outside of ourselves (the new medication) with the selection of a different possibility (being pain-free).

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.

She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction.

Harper thought of Hillary Clinton. She

You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor.

Miriam sang, "Gail, Gail, she bosses everyone around. Gail, Gail, she is really stupid." The melody was just as good as the lyrics.

The cat was a gift from Manx, who runs Christmasland in Colorado.

Ela associava sotaques ingleses a bules de chá cantantes, escolas de bruxaria e à ciência da dedução.

The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.

Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.

the context of Ezekiel is the best context by which to interpret the area to which Isaiah referred.

You know you've reached middle-age if...) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan.

The outlaw, the revolutionary, the cabbalist or member of a secret society, indeed heretics of all kinds are of a highly associative if not sociable disposition, and a certain element of play is prominent in all their doings.

Creativity is not [where you create] some new thing that's emerged from your brain," Nathan told me. "It's a new association between two things that were already there.

Creativity is not [where you create] some new thing that's emerged from your brain," Nathan told me. "It's a new association between two things that were already there." Mind-wandering allows "more extended trains of thought to unfold, which allows for more associations to be made.

Blue gives us an impression of cold, and thus, again, reminds us of shade. We have before spoken of its affinity with black.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

Friends are people who are in your life because you feel good around them and you like them. Friends are the people you choose to be with.

My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.