Mental Rehearsal Quotes

I daydream too. I visualise. I think ahead, I can do it now, sitting here. I think ahead to the walk-in, I can hear the crowd, the music, I can feel the cameras all around me, I can feel movements in my body as I am heading there, I can bring up that incredible feeling you get when you step into the cage.

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.

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.

The best recording is the one you bring with you in your mind.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

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'll watch a highlight tape of my kicks and I'll play a song that I like the night before the game and then I'll sing that song in my head to visually get myself ready and have positive thoughts.

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

Generally when I'm filming something, I have a sort of exaggerated, comical, sort of grotesque version of the same scene running parallel in my head. With this process, you get to let it out of the box a little bit.

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

In my mind, I slowed down and I feel like I translated it over into my game.

I never missed a putt in my mind.

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.

VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future.

To make a thought my own, I must think it often.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.

Only in your imagination can you revise.