Quotes About Visualization

Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.

Specificity transforms a vague dream into a concrete, achievable goals. If you can practically see, hear, feel, and smell a goal, the chances are excellent that you'll not only know what's required to make t real, you'll actually do what's required to make it real.

He forced his mind to picture a brick wall, to feel a brick wall, smell a brick wall, become a brick wall. He lost all sense of time, but the bricks stood out. He heard the voices questioning him, but he turned their sounds to bricks for his wall.

the goal of a mapping effort isn't to complete an artifact, but to address the challenges the diagrams help discover and understand. Diagrams

the great thing about literature is that you can imagine; the great thing about film is that you can't.

There's also a great post from the Datadog team on visualizing time series data that is worth reading.

I saw," said Poirot. "With the eyes of the mind one can see more than with the eyes of the body. One leans back and closes the eyes—

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll manifest. I've done that since I was three; I cut out pictures of ladies from the JCPenney catalog.

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.