Ernst Mach Quotes

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

The camera can photograph thought.

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

The soul never thinks without a picture.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

I've always been interested in visualizing something, whether it's a memory or an idea you want to be true. I am a big believer in that. I'm constantly thinking of that. If I can't picture something, then it doesn't make sense to me.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

I prefer radio to television. Radio is a dialogue; television is a monologue. In radio, you have to interact - they put the words in your head; you build the pictures in your mind. To that extent, it is more engaging than television.

I only think in live action.

Every time I write 'Stephanie Plum', it's going to be Katherine Heigl's face there.

Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.

Sometimes, I believe I actually see the wheels in my brain turning.

When you envision something in your head over and over again, it's like a movie placing you in that position, and once you are there you're ready.

Everything I think is in pictures.

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.