Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
What it boils down to is that when you say the word Las Vegas it means something. You could say New York City and it doesn't really mean anything. When you say a word like Bangkok, in my mind it means something. There's not a lot of cities where the world literally brings a picture to your mind.
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.
I don't own photograph albums - the pictures that are important to me are etched in my mind.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
I like visual imagery in my head.
Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
Everything I think is in pictures.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.
The reason visualization is so powerful is because as you create pictures in your mind of seeing yourself with what it is you want, you are generating thoughts and feelings of having it now. Visualization is simply powerfully focused thought in pictures, and it causes equally powerful feelings.
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.
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.
All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.
I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading.
Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
