Quotes About Imagination

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information that you give to it from your forebrain.

Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you think or imagine to be true.

When you do see a thing clearly in your mind, the creative Success Mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort, or "willpower.

Just say to yourself: "I am going to imagine myself acting this way now

one that is vividly imagined. If we picture ourselves performing in a certain manner, it is nearly the same as the actual performance. Mental practice helps to make perfect.

Henri Fehr, the famous Swiss scientist, said that practically all his good ideas came to him when he was not actively engaged in work on a problem, and that most of the discoveries of his contemporaries were made when they were away from their workbench, so to speak.

Just because the mental imagery isn't clear when you begin does not mean it won't get clearer, more vivid, more detailed, and more powerful each time you practice.

he played chess only in his mind, building up steam for the moment when he would meet the champion.

create experience and control it, in the laboratory of our minds. Both experimental and clinical psychology have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

Holland, a recognized authority on teaching piano, recommends that all pianists "practice in their heads." A new composition, he says, should be first gone over in the mind.

Remember the fairy story "The Elves and the Shoemaker"? The shoemaker found that if he cut out the leather, and laid out the patterns before retiring, little elves came and actually put the shoes together for him while he was sleeping.

In much the same way, when we set out to find a new idea, or the answer to a problem, we must assume that the answer exists already—somewhere—and set out to find it.

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Both experimental and clinical psychology have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

I guess I had all kinds of ideas about him, but they weren't really him, they were just what I made him in my head. The reality was not as attractive as the ideal.

ìIf one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house.

Wealthy old woman + devious imagination - restraint = Aunt Agatha