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Association Quotes by William James
- It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
- The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these…
- 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…
- The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,…
- Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the…
- Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
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