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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
Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish. -- Arthur Hailey
I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images. -- Nina Jacobson
Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings. -- Rose Tremain
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive. -- E. F. Benson
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. -- Richard Holloway
Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know. -- John Banville
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies. -- Aristotle
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy. -- Humphry Davy
I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. -- Frances Mayes
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power. -- George Henry Lewes
The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world. -- Dorothea Brande
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them. -- Italo Svevo
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you. -- Epictetus
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original. -- Herbert Hoover
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn

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