- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conjure Quotes
What the mind can call up when it tries.
A filmmaker here describes how a studio lets creators conjure entire worlds of escapism more freely than shooting on location. Another quote explains the "memory palace" method, where people conjure a familiar space in their imagination to remember things — related reading on our Mind quotes page.
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.
- Eventual
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- Nov 07, 2020
No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to cook, but I love to eat. I would want to be able to conjure yummy and healthy meals by wiggling my nose!
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there's more than this - that maybe, when we die, our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife.
- Each Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020