Best Visualization Quotes

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

Undoubtedly we become what we envisage.

See yourself confronting your fears in your mind’s eye and handling those fears like a champ.

[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back, and then discover where it was wearing. You know, where the parts were wearing out. Now, that’s inner visualization and a half! And that was the secret of why he did so many inventions.

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.

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than the picture of life we habitually carry around with us. But if we want to, there is a practical way to look at that picture and change it. Here is the way of the Treasure Map.

I believe in creative visualization.

My mom’s a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I’m just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

For me to go to America – which I find such a positive place – well, I took to it like a duck to water.

Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

The visualization of my films is always very important to me and I work very closely with my cinematographers. I’ve never had the same cinematographer twice now that I think about it. I don’t know why that is. Everyone is always busy. They do three or four films a year. It’s vital to me.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real – a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

Real anatomy exists in three dimensions, so any time you can view anatomical data in 3D, you’ll have a much more accurate picture of the subject, … Even multiple two-dimensional CT slices can never allow you to understand a subject’s dental condition as quickly or as accurately as a quality 3D visualization.

Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

We’ve seen it in the last U.S. presidential campaign 2016: both sides were trading graphs and circulating data visualizations to make their point. So the political establishment is waking up to the power of a good graph as well.

I don’t see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative visualization exercise only if you are an advanced practitioner. The negative visualization is a meditation during which you visualize, slowly and deliberately, something bad or discomforting happening to you.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualization. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was gonna be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Personally, I’m not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

Youth and vision make an unbeatable combination.

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.

Don’t visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

The harder you work… and visualize something, the luckier you get.

When you speak to a man or a woman about money, they will use water visualizations. For men, it typically is a river. Money comes in; money goes out. The level rises; the level sinks. For women, when you talk about money, to her… it’s a pond. It’s a set amount. She husbands it, and it typically goes in one direction… which is down.

For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that’s occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can’t tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you’ve just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I’m going over those hurdles in training.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.