Mental Imagery Quotes

• The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Use, Strategy, Imagery

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Feelings, Care, Emotion

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.158, Penguin

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• Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

  George H. Mead

  Past, Order, Process

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• In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances.

  Terry Orlick

  Sports, Athlete, Mean

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• The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

  Glenn Gould

  Music, Keys, Individual

  "Glenn Gould Reader". Book by Glenn Gould, p. 445, 1984.

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• The power of imagination is incredible. Often we see athletes achieving unbelievable results and wonder how they did it. One of the tools they use is visualization or mental imagery… they made the choice to create their destinies and visualized their achievements before they ultimately succeeded.

  George Kohlrieser

  Athlete, Destiny, Imagination

  George Kohlrieser (2011). “Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

  Daniel Tammet

  Math, Thinking, Two

  "A genius explains" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.

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• From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry the promise of a form, a meaning, and, more important, an irresistible poetic charge.

  Leo Lionni

  Promise, Important, Flow

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