Best 232 quotes in «association quotes» category

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.

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.

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.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many outstanding legal successes, it definitely seemed to have oriented its thinking in the direction that the way to achieve was through the courts.

It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate dissent, freedom of association and so on.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.

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.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row.

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

I've been recognized every now and then. It's always in computer stores. It's something like brain associations, because I'll be in the grocery store and nobody will recognize me. Even in my glasses, looking exactly like my picture, nobody will recognize me. But I could be totally clean-shaven, hat on, looking nothing like myself in a computer store, and they're like, "Snowden?!

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do.

I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC.

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

Love and sacrifice are not the same thing, but they are inseparable. To think of Christ and to think of the Cross is not the same thing, but the association is so close that the implication is immediate. Where love has been preached without sacrifice, it has not led to love but to license.

Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.

Look carefully at the closest associations in your life, for that is the direction you are heading.

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.

I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

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.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

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.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality, and lifts the sprit to a state of hallowed and elevated enjoyment.

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.

Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the edge of the new meanings.

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

Something in the movement of fingers on the keyboard enhances thought. Fingers pull your thoughts forward. Fingers are in some way an extension of your brain, with a lot of cortex associations at their trigger. Get them going!

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.