Associates Quotes

• Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Wise, Important Choices

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• After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Trying, Done, Way

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• You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

  Earl Nightingale

  Teamwork, Book, Two

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• To develop good thoughts and acts, we must live and associate with good people.

  David B. Haight

  People, Good People, Good Thoughts

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• You are the average of your five closest associates.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Average, Five

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• President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Attitude, Enemy

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• Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Goal, Inspire

  Twitter post from Jun 3, 2014

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• I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

  Vince Lombardi

  Loyalty, Teamwork, Player

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• Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Heart, People

  Joel Osteen (2007). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say it is because he and his friend share similar attitudes. But if you actually quiz the two of them on their attitudes, you’ll find out that what they actually share is similar activities. We’re friends with the people we do things with, as much as we are with the people we resemble. We don’t seek out friends, in other words. We associate with the people who occupy the same small, physical spaces that we do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Attitude, Utah, Two

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• Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Thinking, People, Negative

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• One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

  Aldo Rossi

  Memories, Cities, Collective Memory

  Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press

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• The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

  Peter Joseph

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

  Saul Bellow

  Happiness, Book, People

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.140, Penguin

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• Your associates can be priceless.

  Napoleon Hill

  Priceless

  Napoleon Hill (2016). “Think and Grow Rich!”, p.74, Jaico Publishing House

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• When you gossip about another person, listeners unconsciously associate you with the characteristics you are describing, ultimately leading to those characteristics' being “transferred” to you. So, say positive and pleasant things about friends and colleagues, and you are seen as a nice person. In contrast, constantly complain about their failings, and people will unconsciously apply the negative traits and incompetence to you.

  Richard Wiseman

  Nice, Gossip, People

  Richard Wiseman (2009). “59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot”, p.58, Anchor

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• If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs.  If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Friendship, Eagles

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV.

  Randall Wright

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

  Bono

  School, Two, Oil

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• If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

  Francois Fenelon

  Annoyed, Should, Defects

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• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

  Daniel Boone

  War, Ambition, Land

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

  Billy Corgan

  Grew Up, Grew, Suburbs

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• It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

  Colin Firth

  Loser, Used, Paranoid

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• I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

  Robert Griffin III

  Successful, Trying, Citizens

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