Quotes About Visualization

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract .. every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants.

LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW.

Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!

If your eyes and mind can SEE IT, the body does not require external motivation to get motivated.

You have first flown with your mind to every goal you have ever achieved.

The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint.

To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.

The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Hedonic adaptation has the power to extinguish our enjoyment of the world. Because of adaptation, we take our life and what we have for granted rather than delighting in them. Negative visualization, though, is a powerful antidote to hedonic adaptation. By consciously thinking about the loss of what we have, we can regain our appreciation of it, and with this regained appreciation we can revitalize our capacity for joy.

Negative visualization does not have these drawbacks. We don't have to wait to engage in negative visualization the way we have to wait to be struck by a catastrophe. Being struck by a catastrophe can easily kill us; engaging in negative visualization can't. And because negative visualization can be done repeatedly, its beneficial effects, unlike those of a catastrophe, can last indefinitely.

Negative visualization is therefore a wonderful way to regain our appreciation of life and with it our capacity for joy. T

the regular practice of negative visualization has the effect of transforming Stoics into full-blown optimists.

His psychiatrist told him that he had triumphed back then by adopting mental strategies that professional athletes used routinely—setting clearly defined goals, visualizing themselves performing flawlessly, and repeating affirmations that crowded out all doubts and fears until they were replaced with unshakable self-belief.

The most dreadful scenes, the worst in Dante's Inferno, for example, can be visualized by the inner eye; and sounds, too, are conveyed to us in a description so that they can be heard mentally; but it is not so with smells.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

If you visualise something happening in the future it will always be happening in the future and never in the now.

David Ionovich Bronstein

The physical board had a huge psychological effect compared to anything we got from the electronic tracking tool we used at Microsoft. By attending the standup each day, team members were exposed to a sort of time-lapse photography of the flow of work across the board. Blocked work items were marked with pink tickets, and the team became much more focused on issue resolution and maintaining flow. Productivity jumped dramatically.

Cumulative Flow Diagram