Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

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

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

I only think in live action.

The power of our conscious mind is unimaginable.

Most of my work is in my mind.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Man lives by imagination.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.