Association Quotes

“Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Your vision should be something that can equally inspire everyone who is associated with your project and not just you.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“What surrounds us is what is within us.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty. In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts in a shabby political effort to isolate the Republic from the world and to punish political criticism as seditious libel. In 1865 the Radical Republicans sought to snare private conscience in a web of oaths and affirmations of loyalty. Spokesmen for the South did service for the Nation in resisting the petty tyranny of distrustful vengeance. In the 1920's the Attorney General of the United States degraded his office by hunting political radicals as if they were Salem witches. The Nation's only gain from his efforts were the classic dissents of Holmes and Brandeis.

In our own times, the old blunt instruments have again been put to work. The States have followed in the footsteps of the Federalists and have put Alien and Sedition Acts upon their statute books. An epidemic of loyalty oaths has spread across the Nation until no town or village seems to feel secure until its servants have purged themselves of all suspicion of non-conformity by swearing to their political cleanliness.

Those who love the twilight speak as if public education must be training in conformity, and government support of science be public aid of caution.

We have also seen a sharpening and refinement of abusive power. The legislative investigation, designed and often exercised for the achievement of high ends, has too frequently been used by the Nation and the States as a means for effecting the disgrace and degradation of private persons. Unscrupulous demagogues have used the power to investigate as tyrants of an earlier day used the bill of attainder.

The architects of fear have converted a wholesome law against conspiracy into an instrument for making association a crime. Pretending to fear government they have asked government to outlaw private protest. They glorify "togetherness" when it is theirs, and call it conspiracy when it is that of others.

In listing these abuses I do not mean to condemn our central effort to protect the Nation's security. The dangers that surround us have been very great, and many of our measures of vigilance have ample justification. Yet there are few among us who do not share a portion of the blame for not recognizing soon enough the dark tendency towards excess of caution.”
― John F. Kennedy

“You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Winners have no interest or association in the opinions, actions or affairs of losers.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sooner or later, having two separate agendas is going to cause trouble.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Dead

“When you're creating an environment to support your goals, remember that you get in life what you tolerate.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“Your presence is a gift.
Handle it with grace.”
― Paul Bamikole

“If you can’t beat them, leave them. Good morals do not improve bad association. It’s a reverse that will only drive to regret.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“IT IS SO CURIOUS how hearing something once in your youth can dictate a thought pattern all the way through your life. I was nine, a man said something nonchalantly, and now when I see a slate at age thirty-six, as far as I'm concerned, its primary use is for beheading boys. Once that's done it can be used for roofing.”
― Rob Delaney, Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.

“She had never been filled with her love like a calm brimming vessel. She had rather suffered it, as a tree might suffer a cold wind, and the image of a coldness was somehow mingled with her memories of marital love.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When only one party makes a profit that's robbery when all parties make profit that's business.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Our challenge often time is that we somehow believe we are smarter than God; that's why we keep returning to the people God has outrightly told us to bid farewell.”
― Paul Bamikole

“He mentally perceived words as having various sizes, densities, depths; words were dark stars, some small and dull and solid, some immense, complex, subtle, with a powerful gravity-field that attracted infinite meanings to them. Freedom was the biggest of the dark stars.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

“We have in our head a remarkably powerful computer, not vast by conventional hardware standards, but able to represent the structure of our world by various types of associative links in a vast network of various types of ideas.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“It is difficult to find any precise use of metaphor, simile, or other conceit, which is common to all the poets and at the same time important enough as an element of style to isolate these poets as a group. Donne, and often Cowley, employ a device which is sometimes considered characteristically 'metaphysical'; the elaboration (contrasted with the condensation) of a figure of speech to the furthest stage to which ingenuity can carry it. Thus Cowley develops the commonplace comparison of the world to a chess-board through long stanzas ("To Destiny"), and Donne, with more grace, in "A Valediction," the comparison of two lovers to a pair of compasses. But elsewhere we find, instead of the mere explication of the content of a comparison, a development by rapid association of thought which requires considerable agility on the part of the reader.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Metaphysical Poets

“Both wealth and poverty are contagious. If you share your time and energy with people who have wealth consciousness, you will attain more wealth consciousness. If you share your time and energy with people who have poverty consciousness, then you will attain more poverty consciousness.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Birth is stressful, aging is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful; association with the unbeloved is stressful, separation from the loved is stressful, not getting what is wanted is stressful.”
― Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion (translated from the Pali by Than

“A companion's crudeness is bound to rub off on the one he is with, no matter how refined that person may be.”
― Epictetus, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life

“It is time for housing owner associations to move past old prejudices and prioritize making community life fully accessible and inclusive for individuals with disabilities.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“When you're creating an environment to support your goals, remember that you get in life what you tolerate. Put another way, you will get in life what you accept and expect you are worthy of.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“The environment is changing and by association, so are the humans.”
― Steven Magee

“You imbibe your associations. Those people you closely connect with ... the conversations you have... all profoundly influence your thinking and actions. You slowly become the sum of the people closest to you. Choose them wisely.....”
― Adiela Akoo

“Too much association with visionless people will blur your vision until you finally lose sight of your true identity.”
― Ogedegbe Clement

“It doesn’t matter if you’re the spouse, romantic partner, concerned friend, parent, or child, you still bring something precious to the table - something the addict depends on. What do you bring? You bring an “obligation by association.”
― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“Affiliating tattoos with hipsters would be giving hipsters too much credit.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Her Spidey sense, as Paul would have called it, tingled.”
― Liz Braswell, The Nine Lives of Chloe King