Quotes About Visualization

The universe is run exactly on the lines of a cafeteria. Unless you claim—mentally—what you want, you may sit and wait forever.

No   hables del   asunto negativo ni  actúes como si existiera. Actúa como si en  verdad la  nueva situación ya  estuviera presente.

la clave  de  la vida  es edificar un equivalente mental de lo que  deseas y eliminar  los  equivalentes de  lo  que   no  quieres.

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

Diagrams are a means of communication and explanation, and they facilitate brainstorming. They serve these ends best if they are minimal.

the model is not the diagram.

he never stopped taking photographs, only now it isn't with a camera but mentally.

Faith means a sanctified imagination, or the imagination applied to spiritual things.

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

When I reach the line, I just know I'm going to dribble the ball twice, and when I shoot, I know it's going in. I get there and relax. I've put more in than I have missed, so in my head, I know they're going in.

When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell you where they all lived, what color their houses are.

The way to focus our minds in prayer, therefore, is to picture mentally the one to whom we pray and the matter about which we pray.

Plaster holo screens against a mountain a full kilometer high, covering it until it glitters with a half million dancing images. Each holo used a quarter of a million pixels to shape its image, so the array musters immense representational power. Now compress those screens on a sheet of aluminum foil a millimeter thick. Crumple it. Stuff it into a grapefruit. That is the brain, a hundred billion neurons firing at varying intensities. Nature had accomplished that miracle

who could visualize four-dimensional surfaces in a non-Euclidean geometry

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.

You can't swing with hesitation; you can't try to steer the ball to the flag; you can't worry about that water hazard as you take the club back. You have to pick the right club, visualize the shot you want to hit, and then focus on that shot until the ball is gone.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.

When it's time to dress, I have to think. I have to envision myself in a certain outfit. The night before, when I go to bed, I close my eyes and start thinking about the outfit I'm going to wear tomorrow: all the colors, the fabrics, how it's going to look. It's about putting the whole thing together.

Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.