Vivid Quotes

• 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

  Children, Blessed, Exercise

  "The Quotable Walt Disney". Book by Disney Book Group, 2001.

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• It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is supposed to put all past wrongs into their rightful and diminished place, that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace. No one will ever understand the potency of my memories, which are so solid and vivid that I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me they are driving me crazy. My subconscious has not buried them, my superego has not restrained them. They are front and center, they are going on right now.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Memories, Crazy, Past

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Blessed, Magic Kingdom

  "The Quotable Walt Disney". Book by Disney Book Group, 2001.

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• Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Beautiful, Blue, Somewhere Else

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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

  Thinking, Self, Perception

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

  George Will

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

  George F. Will (1999). “Bunts”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Vivid Imagination, People

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• 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

  Mind, Opinion, Possession

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1888). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, God

  "'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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• 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

  Pain, Smell, Vices

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• Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

  Eric Hoffer

  Break Up, Heart, Winning

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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

  Vivid Imagination, Able, Belief

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Cities

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• 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

  Hands, Astrology, People

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• I have a very vivid imagination.

  Janice Dickinson

  Vivid Imagination, Imagination

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• News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.

  Walter W. Powell

  Media, Organization, Worry

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• 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

  Past, America, Honor

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• 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

  Country, Book, Historical

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• 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

  Real, Giving, Darkness

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• Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Moral, Persuasive, Explicit

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.48, Vintage

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• 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

  Art, Light, History

  Walter Bagehot (2010). “Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

  Julia Glass

  Crazy, Writing, World

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• 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

  Reality, Self, Vivid Imagination

  Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Light, Duration

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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