VISUALIZATION & SUCCESS

      The vision we hold of ourselves and our destiny shapes the person we surely will become.

      Creative visualization, done during deep relaxation, is the secret power that allows us to positively and productively shape that vision.

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
-- James Broughton

"Everyone visualizes. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success."
-- Dr. Rob Gilbert

"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, it is always the imagination which wins."
-- Emile Coue

"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel."
-- Peter Zarlenga

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus."
-- Mark Twain

"The source and center of all man's creative power. . . is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building."
-- Robert Collier

"Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence."
-- Brian Tracy

"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."
-- Hans Margolius

"Our imagination sets the goal 'picture' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of 'will', as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination."
-- Maxwell Maltz

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein

"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible."
-- Cherie Carter-Scott

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
-- Jamie Paolinetti

"You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature."
-- Les Brown

"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."
-- Napoleon Hill

"Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality activates the creative power of Realization."
-- A. L. Linall, Jr.

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
-- Albert Einstein

"We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."
-- Speakers Library

"Image creates desire. You will what you imagine."
-- J. G. Gallimore

"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation."
-- William S. Burroughs

"See things as you would have them be instead of as they are."
-- Robert Collier

"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. . . He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."
-- Robert L. Schwartz

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
-- Louisa May Alcott

"Pictures help you to form the mental mold..."
-- Robert Collier

"No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"What the mind does not attend to, the mind dismisses. What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does."
-- William J. McCrane

"Before you can do something you must first be something."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp in-focus picture of it in my head."
-- Jack Nicklaus, Hall Of Fame golfer

"The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life."
-- Carl Jung

"This world is but canvas to our imaginations."
-- Henry David Thoreau 1817

"What is now proved was once only imagined."
-- William Blake

"The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great if the inward is small or of little worth."
-- Meister Eckhart

"Visualize, "prayerize," "actionize," and your wishes will come true."
-- Charles L. Allen

"I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen."
-- Charles A. Garfield

"Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you'd take, the obstacles you might meet, the difficulties you would meet. Continue imagining each step until you mentally reach your wealth goal."
-- Tyler G. Hicks

"Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it."
-- Win Ng

"Vitalize your vision! Make your dreams of reaching your goal so vividly real that -- when you actually are approaching the achievement of that goal -- it will feel as if you've done it many times before."
-- Grady L. Dobbs

"One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination. The imagination equips us to perceive reality before it's fully materialized."
-- Mark Victor Hansen

"There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance... The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
-- Albert Einstein

"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action."
-- David Seabury

"I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives."
-- Stephen Devore

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience."
-- Grace Speare

"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."
-- Wallace Stevens

"First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be."
-- Peter Zarlenga

"By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true."
-- Success Magazine

"When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower."
-- Maxwell Maltz

"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it."
-- Alex Morrison

"Picture yourself vividly as winning, and the alone will contribute immeasurably to success."
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it."
-- Charles A. Garfield

"The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration; then more practice and more concentration."
-- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

"Seeing all possibilities, seeing all that can be done, and how it can be done, marks the power of imagination. Your imagination stands as your own personal laboratory. Here you can rehearse the possibilities, map out plans, and visualize overcoming obstacles. Imagination turns possibilities into reality."
-- Robert Collier

"Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth. In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth, and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end."
-- Claude M. Bristol

      "There is a thinking substance from which all things are made, and which in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
      A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
      I can form things in my thought, and by impressing my thoughts upon formless substance, can cause the thing I think about to be created.
      In order to do this, I must pass from the competitive to the creative mind. I must form a clear mental picture of the things I want. And, I must hold this picture in my thoughts with the fixed purpose to get what I want, and the unwavering faith that I will get what I want -- closing my mind to all that may tend to shake my purpose, dim my vision, or quench my faith.
      I am ready to receive what I want when it comes, and I AM ACTING NOW upon the people and things in my present environment."
-- Wallace D. Wattles

"To be empty, completely empty, is not a fearsome thing;
  It is absolutely essential for the mind to be unoccupied;
  to be empty, unenforced, for then only
  it can move into unknown depths.

"Those who desire to understand,
  who are looking to find that which is eternal,
  without beginning and end,
  will walk together with greater intensity,
  will be a danger to everything which is unessential,
  to unrealities, to shadows.

"They will concentrate,
  they will become the flame,
  because they understand..."
-- Jiddhu Krishnamurti

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