Quotes About Visualization

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

True 3D is, you have to kind of originate the images in three dimensions.

I let the images crowd my mind before I start writing a script.

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

Data is something we create, but it's also something we imagine.

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

Imagining things are there that are not really there, with the green screen, is very much like theatre, when you're looking at the fourth wall.

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

When I draw something, the incredibly annoying thing is that it doesn't come out like I pictured.

Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.

important key to learning to draw is learning how to set up conditions that allow this mental shift that enables you to see and draw.

One of the most common traits among successful people is getting up early in the morning. They put their personal priorities in front of other people's priorities as they know that their priority has to be done if it is to be done. This is why they don't spend the first few hours checking their email but instead use the early hours of the day as their 'me' time. Even a few minutes of visualization and positive thinking in the early hours

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost like a memory before you make it.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth ten thousand slides.

The night before the game I think about every pitch he might throw me, and then, after I've seen that pitch once the next day, my picture of that pitch is so strong, if he made any kind of mistake I would do some damage.

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me.

I never envisioned being a rock star. I envisioned the stage. I would draw and draw and draw the stage, or the tour bus. It was much simpler.