Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it.
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
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.
"The Secret" is the law of attraction.
You have to picturize, prayerize and actualize.
When I'm relaxed, I play my best tennis.
The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.
Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.
Everything you can imagine is real.
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.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.
Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
As you think, so shall you become.
When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.
I love to get inspiration from everywhere.
