Quotes About Visualization

If you need to explain something, try getting real with it. Instead of describing what something looks like, draw it. Instead of explaining what something sounds like, hum it. Do everything you can to remove layers of abstraction.

Si el futuro imaginado es mejor, le da placer o anticipación placentera. Si es peor, crea ansiedad.

The geometry! I think I can see it! Each quarter section is homeomorphic to a triangle!

Uno puede hacer de todos los sitios el sitio que uno desea si uno se concentra.

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won't be able to miss it.

1. We choose a positive attitude about the situation at hand. 2. We choose to visualize what's possible to deal with the situation at hand. 3. We choose an attitude that generates passion for the action that makes the possible become a reality.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film.

With imagery, as actors know, you can make up anything you want to. You can put yourself in icy water to get rid of this or that.

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

Plan your free-kick and imagine where you need to hit the ball. Hang a T-shirt under the bar and try to hit it with the ball.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

Some of the first infographics I did started off as notes to myself: trying to plot out, for instance, how IP addresses are allocated. After a while, I thought, 'This is a neat thing I can share with people, and they can follow me along in that process of understanding.'

I have my Grade 1 autobiography that says I'm going to the 2012 Olympic Games, and it has a picture of me on the podium. So, I've known my whole life. It's not something I just thought of. I've known I would be an Olympic athlete; didn't know what sport, but I drew myself in a judo gi.

I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it and feel it, how it's going to feel to win, and I see myself getting on the podium.

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.

A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.