Paul Bloom Quotes

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

Man lives by imagination.

I have a very vivid imagination.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

I'm always thinking and so even if I'm not on the golf course I'm mentally thinking.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

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

A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

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

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Imagination is my best friend.

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

Imagination is something you do alone.

Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.