100+ Vividness Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.49, Google Publishing

topic: Dream, Reality, Brain, Deranged, Whole Picture

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.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Heart, Dark, Grieving, Revelry, Vividness

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

topic: Thinking, Self, Perception, Vividness

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.

- Peter Galison

topic: Strong, Book, Writing, Vividness, Writing Skills

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

source: E. F. Benson (2014). “Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)”, p.6990, Delphi Classics

topic: Dream, Memories, Book, Vividness

For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

- May Sinclair

topic: Men, Average, Imagination, Vividness, Average Man

This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful. But in time I came to be able to live through the experiences of my host with vividness and accuracy, while yet preserving my own individuality, my own critical intelligence, my own desires and fears. Only when the other had come to realize my presence within him could he, by a special act of volition, keep particular thoughts secret from me.

- Olaf Stapledon

source: Olaf Stapledon (2017). “Star Maker”, p.26, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Individuality, Secret, Desire, Vividness

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.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: "Gift from the Sea".

topic: Women, Home, Artist, Vividness, Future World

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.

- John Dewey

source: John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

topic: Teaching, Responsibility, Imagination, Vividness

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

- Frances Mayes

topic: Southern, Speech, Metaphor, Quirks, Hyperbole

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

topic: Lakes, Purple, Mountain, Placid, Gorges

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.

- Tom Shippey

topic: Clever, Past, Imagination, Vividness

In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

- S. I. Hayakawa

source: "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.

topic: Real, Drama, Years, Symbolic, Vividness

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.

- Neville Goddard

source: Neville Goddard (2013). “The Power of Awareness”, p.11, Courier Corporation

topic: Reality, Ideas, Feelings, Vividness

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

- Humphry Davy

source: Sir Humphry Davy (1858). “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”, p.53

topic: Consistency, Intellectual, Energy, Intellectual Life, Vividness

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision.

- William Stafford

topic: Dream, Writing, Space, Vividness

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

- Dorothea Brande

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Napoleon Hill, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

topic: Children, Genius, World, Vividness

I like a much more Japanese style of blood, where it's red and it almost has a paint kind of quality to it. You can put it on metal, and it has this vividness. Because, normally, what they use in Hollywood is this stuff that looks like strawberry pancake syrup or raspberry pancake syrup.

- Quentin Tarantino

topic: Blood, Style, Quality, Syrup, Raspberries

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

topic: Reading, Romance, Facts, Vividness

There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.

- Linda Grant

topic: Writing, Self, Alive, Vividness

No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.