Maxwell Maltz Quotes

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.

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.

Memory feeds imagination.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

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'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

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.

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.

Your imagination will create many friends

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction. It allows your unconscious mind to work toward the image you have created, the goal. It's about understand the life you want to live, and seeing it unfold before you.

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

Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.

To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow