Quotes About Associations

I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections." "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

It's a normal way of doing business.

They (corporations) cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.

Image has an influence on what sort of car I will get to drive or deals that I'm offered by teams.

We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people. I link Sylvia to Laszlo, Lisa to Laszlo; Gordon links me to Sylvia.

A murderer was a worthy companion.

Nathan called all shiksas Maria--the explanation seemed as ludicrously simple as that.

His eyes are a little together, but man, are they green.

This is a busy week with me and lunatics, whom I tend to see as either signs or messengers.

I'm not so much interested in creating literature as I am in trying to convey the pressure of what I've witnessed or experienced. Writing and rewriting until one achieves a literary form, a strict form, just bleeds the life from a experience-no blood left is it isn't raw. How do we talk, how do we think not in novellas or paragraphs but in associations, in sometimes disjointed currents.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.

There are many politicians who are from the Congress or the BJP or the Aam Aadmi Party who are all my friends and who are all young politicians between the ages of 27 and 35.

Your mind is like Heraclitus' river. Your mind, in fact, is like nineteenth-century father of psychology William James' "stream of consciousness," a bubbling, babbling brook. Your mind constantly produces different currents of associations, different swirls of thought, and different moods.

Such were the travelers along the way; but fat abbot, rich esquire, or money-laden usurer came there none.

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

The mistrust and resentment they brought with them, the way tribes feared anything new, anything from outside the camp's tight confines.

Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.

She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.

It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing – to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos – of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings – in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, 'This is I!

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn't predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.