Mental Picture Quotes

Sometimes we'll walk into a set, and I'll think, 'Oh, this film doesn't look like this.' You know, 'cause I read the script, and I saw it in my head in some other way. Which is a lot like what happens when they're writing a movie that's based on a book - I'm like, 'Ah! He doesn't have a beard.' You have these visions in your head about it.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like.

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

A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.

Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name for it. They call that mental picture of ourselves, our self-image. ... there's always the person whose self-image is bent all out of shape, like a photo carried too long in a wallet.The good news of the tremendous worth we have in God's eyes can light up our inner self-portrait.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite right - usually a bit better than my mental picture.

When you're trying to create imagery, you're trying to create a feeling or a mood.

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what they're reading. They just don't. They follow the events and get the resonance with the language, but they have only a vague, general idea of what the characters look like.

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.