Best Vividness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence

“Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.”

Thinking Mind Self Remember Eternal Perception Ordinary Vivid Vividness

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.”

Doe Together Social Process Imagination Responsibility Teaching Demand Statements Educate Enlightening Accuracy Social Life Permanence Teaching And Learning Living Together Vividness

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.”

Jobs Memories Cities Fiction Forever Alive Imagine Affection Vivid Closeness Vividness Dead Alive

Book:The world according to Garp

Source: The world according to Garp

“For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.”

Self Action Passion Energy Enjoy Consciousness Taught Glory Sorry Hungry Transformed Ambitious Possessed Liberated Uneasy Scholarly Uninspired Vividness Sorry For Him

Author:George Eliot

“The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.”

Source: Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight

“In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.”

Heart May Light Causes Forget Existence Depth Tombs Dungeons Vividness Revelry

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.”

Dream Reality Brain Conditions Extraordinary Morbid Actuality Semblance Vividness

Book:The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

“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.”

“In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.”

“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.”

Men Important Whole Lasts Past Remember Fear Greater Atheism Dying Spread Rage Whole Life Delirium Vividness

Author:Italo Svevo

“In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.”

Source: Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections

“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.”

Moments Powerful Healing Our Lives Mindfulness Gains Resources Transformation Insight Access Awake Exquisite Mindful Living Vividness

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are already experiencing what you desire. That is, you must assume the feeling of the fulfillment of your desire until you are possessed by it and this feeling crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness.”

Ideas Feelings Reality Desire Wish Consciousness Imagine Assuming Crowds Fulfillment Assumption Possessed Imagine That Fulfilled Sensory Vividness

Book:The Power of Awareness

Source: The Power of Awareness

“I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.”

Speech Metaphor Southern Quirks Hyperbole Vividness

Author:Frances Mayes

“A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to thinking about Einstein and the quantum. What he finds and makes broadly understandable are the riches of Einstein's thinking not about relativity, not about his arguments with Bohr, but about Einstein's deep insights into the quantum world, insights that Stone shows speak to us now with all the vividness and depth they had a century ago. This is a fascinating book, lively, engaging, and strong in physical intuition.”

“The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and - from time immemorial - the woman. In the small circle of the home she has never quite forgotten the particular uniqueness of each member of the family; the spontaneity of now; the vividness of here. This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world. We may neglect these elements, but we cannot dispense with them. They are the drops that make up the stream. They are the essence of life itself.”

“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."”

Trying Littles Waiting Feet Let Me Impression Wait For Me Vividness

Author: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.”

Mountain Originals Conservative Miles Rising Lakes Description Purple Rivals Grandeur Precipice Rugged Placid Gorges Vividness

Author:Herbert Hoover

“Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.”

Knows Past Imagination Clever Sci Fi Tricky Matured Coyotes Vividness

Author:Tom Shippey

“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”