J. C. Ryle Quotes

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.

Look around less, imagine more.

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

I have a very vivid imagination.

But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.

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.

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

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

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'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.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

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

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

We all live best in our imaginations.

Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.