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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. -- David Hume
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. -- Seth Low
I have a very vivid imagination. -- Janice Dickinson
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. -- Walt Disney
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. -- George Will
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams. -- Stephen LaBerge
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. -- Eric Hoffer
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory. -- Denis Waitley
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. -- Woodrow Wilson
When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big. -- Michael J. Fox
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. -- Walter Bagehot
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it. -- Walt Disney
Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better. -- Seth Godin
But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance. -- Pierre Loti
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen. -- Uta Hagen
Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga. -- William Zinsser
The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar effect was produced by the inquests of 1166 and 1170, before alluded to. Even to this day, the word 'inquisitorial' bears the burden of historical unpopularity. -- Edward Jenks
Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow. -- J. I. Packer
Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear the uniform in the past and those who wear it today is to herald you, sir, and to thank you very much for your patriotism and your love for America. -- Frank Buckles
People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does. -- Shelby Foote
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. -- Criss Jami
Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future. -- Allen Ginsberg
There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace. -- Alice Walker
Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain. -- Steven Bochco
August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple. -- Jean Hersey
Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming! -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD. -- Will Packer
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about... the world I live in. -- Julia Glass
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. -- Joe Murray
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color. -- Gary Ross
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. -- Denis Waitley
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. -- Steven Pinker
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse. -- Justin Cronin
Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word. -- Jill Scott
I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones. -- Florence Welch
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process. -- Robin Williams
I'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show character. -- Felicia Day
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. -- Sonia Gandhi
Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering. -- Janet Fitch
Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works. -- Alan Moore
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. -- Ray Bradbury
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like. -- Honor Harger
If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent. -- Leonard Mlodinow
To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life. -- Nancy Reagan
I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies. -- Sarah Silverman
The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating. -- Max Lucado
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier. -- Claire Tomalin
I have absurdly vivid dreams. -- Erin Morgenstern
I have a very vivid memory. -- Billy Eichner
To philosophize means to make vivid. -- Novalis
Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches. -- T. E. Hulme
I have a vivid picture of what I want. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything I have now is so real, so vivid. -- Brian McKnight
A vivid image compels the whole body to follow. -- Aristotle
Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heart-warming! -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid. -- Eloisa James
Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling. -- Peter Travers
You must have a vivid imagination of what you seek. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination. -- Lorrie Moore
My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son. -- Nicole Ari Parker
A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness. -- T.J. Stiles
I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep. -- Conor McGregor
A vivid color blocked tunic dress sets the perfect tone for Spring. -- Lubov Azria
Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me. -- Edith Wharton
Without a vivid picture of what you want, how can you reach it~? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Without a vivid picture of what you want, how can you reach it? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world -- Kim Stafford
Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice. -- Simone Berteaut
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation. -- Don DeLillo
Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it. -- J. K. Rowling
A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa. -- Douglas McCulloh
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge. -- Kedar Joshi
I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them. -- Amy Lee
What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. -- Phillips Brooks
I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape. -- James Vincent McMorrow
The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color. -- Paul Stanley
Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived. -- Arthur Symons
With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world. -- David Brin
Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. -- Ivars Peterson
Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes. -- David Crabb
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. -- John Irving
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. -- Ansel Adams
I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM. -- Tiffany Madison
I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people. -- Susan Fiske
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. -- Robert Hass
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. -- Eric Hoffer
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can. -- Meryl Streep
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. -- Francis Ford Coppola
It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures. -- Katherine Center
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience. -- Bernadette Peters
One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity. -- Mary Catherwood
I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD. -- Drake
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. -- Van Wyck Brooks
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred. -- Algernon Blackwood
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence. -- Brian De Palma
It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion. -- Henry James
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Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. -- Dale Carnegie
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. -- Alfred de Musset
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood. -- Gustav Stresemann
It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.) -- Donald Rumsfeld
In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream. -- E. M. Forster
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. -- Arthur Smith
We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us. -- Ruth St. Denis
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." -- Max Planck
People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear. -- Beatrice Warde
I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything. -- Mallory Jansen
When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way. -- Guillermo del Toro
I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid. -- Tim Finn
I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever. -- Sister Parish
Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. -- Sharon Kay Penman
Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan. -- Carol S. Dweck

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