Claude M. Bristol Quotes

The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly - my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp - but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.

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 never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?

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

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen

VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future.

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.

Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind.

Shut your eyes and see.

Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.

When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.

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

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

I visualize what I do before I do it. Visualizing makes me better.

I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

I never missed a putt in my mind.

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.