Samuel Alexander Quotes

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

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 paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

As long as they're making beloved books into movies, people are going to be like, 'That's not my mental image of them.' It takes that moment for it to click and become their mental image.

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

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.

Before you go through with an experience, think about what you expect it to feel like. Once you've experienced it, reflect on whether your expectations differed from reality.

I'm the kind of person who visualizes things before doing them.

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.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

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.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

There are images I need to complete my own reality.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.