Quotes About Associations

I would like', she resumed, 'to see the world more innocently again, more impersonally, but I have no idea how to achieve this, other than by going somewhere completely unknown, where I have no identity and no associations.

One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign leaders who show up at his door.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

I love Cadillacs and name them after birds.

Brazil has no parties, only acronyms.

In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.

I'm never going to be on ESPN, probably. I've burned too many bridges. That's fine.

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

We take the suggestions people give us and build the best reality we can for them.

Since becoming a BBC breakfast presenter I have been paid four-figure sums for doing hour-long speeches for associations and at awards dinners. That has been an eye-opener. I am surprised by how much people are willing to pay TV celebrities to do that kind of stuff.

We've been conditioned to associate governing with self-promoting arrogance, corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. But

Jerusalem is a very small town. And Bathsheba was a very loud woman. Maybe even Uriah knew.

Leander was swaggering and charismatic as a rap star, Maralena gorgeous as the singer whose name I didn't know how to pronounce—Beyoncé.

It seems that every text has more sources than it can reconstruct within its own terms.

Oh, poverty parts good company.

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.

As I described earlier, System 1 is not prone to doubt. It suppresses ambiguity and spontaneously constructs stories that are as coherent as possible. Unless the message is immediately negated, the associations that it evokes will spread as if the message were true. System 2 is capable of doubt, because it can maintain incompatible possibilities at the same time.

averaging several independent judgments (or measurements) yields a new judgment, which is less noisy, albeit not less biased, than the individual judgments.

On another occasion, Amos and I wondered about the rate of divorce among professors in our university. We noticed that the question triggered a search of memory for divorced professors we knew or knew about, and that we judged the size of categories by the ease with which instances came to mind. We called this reliance on the ease of memory search the availability heuristic.

System 1 represents sets by averages, norms, and prototypes, not by sums. Each

There is no long-term strategy for the brand. The following questions about the brand environment five or ten years into thefuture are unanswered, and may have not been addressed: What associations should the brand have? In what product classes shouldthe brand be competing? What mental image should the brand stimulate in the future?