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“Associate with companions who are in harmony with the Dharma and who don't promote disturbing emotions. Keeping company with unwholesome friends, you cannot possibly avoid being influenced by their evil ways. That is the root of going astray...”
Source: Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
“Associate with companions who are in harmony with the Dharma and who don't promote disturbing emotions. Keeping company with unwholesome friends, you cannot possibly avoid being influenced by their evil ways. That is the root of going astray […] Tsogyal, if you want to avoid this way of going astray, cut your ties to superfluous companions and remain in solitude!”
Source: Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775
“Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.”
“Associate with people of vision. Be around those who inspire you and motivate you to reach your dreams.”
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”
Source: Ravelstein
“Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.”
“Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.”
“Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.”
“Associate Yourself with People Who Think Positively:
Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.”
“Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death. Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy nearly $150 billion in 2009.”
Source: Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction
“Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.”
“Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes.”
Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature
“Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.”
Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod
“Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.”
“Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.”
“Association with women is the basis of good manners.”
“Associations are both subtle and powerful.”
“Associations must evolve if they are to survive into the future.”
Source: The Future of Associations
“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.”
Source: Endless horizons
“Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.”
“Assorted types of churros offered with Mexican hot chocolate, café con leche, and/or a ramekin of cajeta
I made churros all day yesterday and I've set them on different plates in front of Fawn, Dee, and Merry Carole the next morning at the salon. I've used different types of sugar and fried them at different temperatures and for different amounts of time. For dipping, I've made a batch of café con leche and Mexican hot chocolate made with cinnamon (canela) and just a pinch of cayenne pepper. I also offer a small ramekin of cajeta, which is a caramelly concoction made from goat's milk that I may have become obsessed with lately.”
Source: Nowhere But Home
“Assottiglia Gundjr la moltitudine di nodi
che veste la propria barba bruna, incolta,
mentre Tarek avido ne sorseggia un altro
dopo aver terso con la lingua quelle serpi
bionde, che infuriano sopra la sua bocca;
irrora ancora più ebbro il proprio corno
Hengherest, ripassando con le sue falangi
le figure istoriate al pari di superbe rune.”
Source: Il Portatore di Corni
“Assule went on and on about the civilization that had been here first. It could have been very interesting if he hadn’t managed to make it so boring. I don’t know how he did it, actually. Some latent talent for sending everyone droad, I suppose.”
Source: Biting the Sun
“Assume a virtue if you have it not.”
“Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”
“Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.”
“Assume all police officers are corrupt, it is the safest assumption.”
“Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.”
“Assume it will work, and it will. Assume it won't work, and it won't.”
“Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.”
“Assume makes an ass out of you and me.”
Source: The Page Turner
“Assume Nothing!
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!
Never Forget!
Live every day to the fullest!
Never take anything for granted!”
Source: Found In Time: A Marine Raider Time Travel Thriller; Book 1 of the JJ Jackson series
“Assume nothing, question everything.”
“Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.”
“Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.”
“Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life”
“Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.”
“Assume that everybody can see what you are doing and then live your life that way - you will find that generally you are treated right.”
“Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.”
Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING
“Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.”
Source: Manual of political economy
“Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.”
“Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed on the hypothesis that cultivating joy can make you a more ethical and compassionate person. Imagine that feeling good has something important to teach you every day. What might you do differently from what you do now?”
“Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.”
“Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.”
Source: Alta: Joust #2
“Assume the best but hire paranoid people.”
“Assume the best in others.”
Source: Rethink Everything: You “Know" About Social Media
“Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.”
Source: Neville's Spiritual Classics