Associative Quotes

#1. The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.

Michael Graves

#2. For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.

James Arthur

#3. This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.

Marcel Danesi

#4. Teachers who work with autistic children need to understand associative thought patterns.

Temple Grandin

#5. An essential design feature of the associative machine is that it represents only activated ideas. Information that is not retrieved (even unconsciously) from memory might as well not exist.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. exformation, which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.

David Foster Wallace

#7. We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.

Frederick Lenz

#8. I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it feels to live in that world, and to wonder at its weird machinations, at any age.

Scott Bradfield

#9. The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.

Annie Lennox

#11. Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Larry Wall

#12. One neural network called bidirectional associative memory (BAM) allows you to provide the value and receive the key.

Jeff Heaton

#13. Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

Vannevar Bush

#14. This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

Sigmund Freud

#15. The events that took place as a result of your seeing the words happened by a process called associative activation: ideas that have been evoked trigger many other ideas, in a spreading cascade of activity in your brain. The

Daniel Kahneman

#16. Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the Memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.

Vannevar Bush

#17. Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.

Siri Hustvedt

#18. The outlaw, the revolutionary, the cabbalist or member of a secret society, indeed heretics of all kinds are of a highly associative if not sociable disposition, and a certain element of play is prominent in all their doings.

Johan Huizinga

#19. Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#20. The assumption that the square of a unit vector
is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
quantities are non-associative.

Cargill Gilston Knott

#21. Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not ... All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

Yves Klein

#22. Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

Dana Spiotta

#23. Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind.

Edward Hirsch

#24. I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.

Nicholas Sparks

#25. I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.

Xenophon

#26. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Anonymous

#27. I think now, looking back, that we all die, little by little, as each of those we love departs before us.

Brian Ruckley

#28. Like a beautifully brightly colored flower without fragrance, is the well-spoken word without action.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#29. Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

Ken Burns

#30. If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#31. Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

Al Sharpton

#32. For a time Robert protected me, then was dependent on me, and then possessive of me. His transformation was the rose of Genet, and he was pierced deeply by his blooming.

Patti Smith

#33. The joy of God has gone through the poverty of the manger and the distress of the cross; therefore it is invincible and irrefutable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#34. Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.

William Strunk Jr.