Quotes About Associations

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

I don't think I've been to any country where everybody was supportive - there's always churches or groups who don't like my theology or that we associate with this group or that group.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

I think men that read books are the most attractive kind.

It is most difficult to put your finger on a single spot of the world-map that is not being torn and uptorn by unrest in one shape or another.

It's kind of shocking to hear Toby called a babe; sort of like calling God a studmuffin.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Librarians are notorious snitches—don't let anybody convince you otherwise.

It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.

Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn't care about reaching out to the world, when you weren't hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.

Empty the mind of all concerns, see the stone as it is . . . cleansed of associations, wishes, dreams, fantasies, fears.

Much of Macon's youth was ruled by connotations.

The link between gangsters nicknamed for food—Benny Eggs and Johnny Sausage—prompted agents to refer to them as "Chin's Breakfast Club.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.

There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions.

We weren't creatures from another planet. We were creatures from Hell.

Whereas associations are organized to express the properties and capacities of a competent community, systems are organized to produce services and products.

Systems use relationships to produce products and services. Associations create relationships for their own sake. This has the effect of bringing forth the properties of kindness, generosity, and the rest.