Charlie McDowell Quotes

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

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.

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

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

I have a visual imagination.

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.'

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

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

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

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

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Look around less, imagine more.

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

Visualizing, creative mental picturing, is no more difficult than what you do when you remember some scene out of the past, or worry about the future. Acting out new action patterns is no more difficult than deciding, then following through on tying your shoes in a new and different manner each morning, instead of continuing to tie them in your old habitual way, without thought or decision.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual's imagination.

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Man lives by imagination.