William James Quotes

I like visual imagery in my head.

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

I have a visual imagination.

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

In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'

I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what they're reading. They just don't. They follow the events and get the resonance with the language, but they have only a vague, general idea of what the characters look like.

I only think in live action.

I'm a relentless sketcher. It goes back to how you process the world around you - the whole left-brain, right-brain thing. Some people are data-driven. I've always been more visual.

When I was 5 years old, I saw people dancing in my head. In college, I would choreograph for the cultural shows, and in my notes, I would actually create formations of people. It was how my whole brain worked.

Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.

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.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

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

I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut.

Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

When I was younger, I didn't even realize the way I think visually is different.