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Associations are both subtle and powerful. -- Jim Rohn
Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks. -- Will Rogers
I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business. -- Cathy Freeman
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. -- Daniel Kahneman
When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap. -- Eli Roth
I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us. -- Robin S. Sharma
The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
Obama doesn't run around wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque nameplate necklace that says 'Socialist.' But his policies, actions, words, background and associations speak louder than any ID necklace ever could. -- Monica Crowley
I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power. -- Sharon Salzberg
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. -- George Mason
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations. -- Jonathan Sacks
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations. -- Malcolm Fraser
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things. -- Arthur Scargill
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. -- H. L. Mencken
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. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. -- Charles Dickens
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. -- Mortimer Adler
We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine. -- Daniel Kahneman
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. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency. -- Christopher Hitchens
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate. -- David Chalmers
If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. -- Noam Chomsky
We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint. -- Aimee Bender
I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it. -- Tom Folsom
Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but also from Coke to jeans. It is entirely possible for people around the world to love American products, American books, American movies, American music, and dislike the policies of the government of America. -- Shashi Tharoor
I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York. -- Vera Farmiga
Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations; they are gatekeepers. -- Bryant McGill
It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations. -- Noam Chomsky
Once dishonesty is introduced, distrust becomes the hallmark of future dealings or associations. -- Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations. -- Colum McCann
I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie. -- Noah Baumbach
I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music. -- Alan Palomo
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. -- H. L. Mencken
I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life. -- Pope Francis
It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players. -- Sepp Blatter
An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations. -- Stephen Covey
Look carefully at the closest associations in your life, for that is the direction you are heading. -- Kevin Eikenberry
One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations. -- Noam Chomsky
In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations. -- Josh Hunt
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure. -- Jonathan Ames
If regional associations are created, they should work on the basis of WTO norms, on the WTO basis. -- Vladimir Putin
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it. -- Fred Frith
Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully. -- Paul Clitheroe
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses. -- H. G. Wells
I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang! -- James Rosenquist
The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA. -- Ralph Nader
An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau. -- Fredrik Bajer
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. -- Antonin Artaud
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader. -- Charles Simic
Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs. -- John Marshall Harlan II
Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power. -- D. Todd Christofferson
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. -- Bertolt Brecht
No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes. -- Myles Munroe
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. -- Jon Anderson
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. -- Epictetus
I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us. -- Robin S. Sharma
It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has. -- David Ben-Gurion
The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest. -- Christian D. Larson
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. -- Edward Thorndike
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. -- William James
The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action. -- Marshall McLuhan
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations. -- John Dewey
It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies. -- Thomas S. Buechner
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. -- Harry A. Blackmun
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. -- Mark Twain
Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way. -- Tim Hansen
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers. -- George Bernard Shaw
The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion. -- Alexandra Stoddard
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world. -- Robert Greene
The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me. -- Thomas Mars
Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters. -- Fredrik Bajer
The wisdom that comes from being conscious of the real threats to you and your mission will sharpen your deliberateness in decision & choice-making, associations and positioning. -- Archibald Marwizi
A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations. -- Hosea Ballou
I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations. -- Alan Palomo
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. -- Edward Thorndike
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning. -- Stefan Themerson
If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time. -- Rene Dubos
If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle. -- Gus Van Sant
It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Some contemporary mediums dislike the term 'psychic' because they feel it carries a negative connotation, leading people to associations with crystal balls, tea-leaf reading, fortune-telling, or other stereotypes. -- Mark Ireland
Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network. -- Peter Russell
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. -- Thomas Paine
I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me. -- John Hawkes
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply... -- Jane Austen
The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations. -- Gerhard Roth
There will be associations and partnerships between some Muslim countries and some Christian countries. Those already exist. And they may shift as different regimes come and go and interests change. -- Samuel P. Huntington
I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children. -- John Nelson Darby
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations. -- Brian Eno
So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes. -- L. Ron Hubbard
I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done. -- Peter Cushing
Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism. -- Ori Gersht
This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number. -- William James
It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations. -- Paul Klee
Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have. -- Jean Houston
I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that. -- Paula White
Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it will in addition be a competition of propaganda. -- Edward Bernays
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections. -- Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go. -- John Steinbeck
This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished. -- Benjamin Tucker
There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do. -- Eckhart Tolle
The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there -- Ezra Taft Benson
With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment. -- Mark Rothko
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
If you want to succeed always associate with winners, people who have understood something. You will notice that they all share something in common, tremendous attention to detail in their personal lives and associations. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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