Quotes About Visualization

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.

I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything down.

They have more in common with how our brain visualizes things than they do with how reality is actually formed. Since our perception of reality is basically abstraction anyway,*

She thought in pictures and feelings, not words.

She did not think policeman—she simply watched and took in images, sounds, sensations.

Everything in the world can be pictured, but a picture cannot represent its own pictorial form; this has to be shown rather than said.

I like to know where the camera is.

I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality, if you will.

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

Thousands of time I've won the Open Championship in my mind. This is probably the one I've dreamed about the most.

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

I was just so surprised at the impeccable images I had in my head that I just had to express them in some sort of physical matter.

T]he right way to pray is not to beg, but to picture good things, to banish all bad things from our mind.

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you. "Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high..." "Negative attachments, Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.