Imagine Yourself Quotes

#1. Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

Terry Bradshaw

#2. Words are like gems to me ... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye ... that's what names are like for me.

Anne Rice

#3. Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use all of your senses. Then evoke those experiences for the reader. If you give the audience the flavor, they'll flesh out the moment in their own imaginations.

David Gerrold

#4. Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. If a petite, abused slave can rise up, fight for freedom, secure the freedom of others, and change her world, so can I. And so can you.

Susie Larson

#5. Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Alan Watts

#6. See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.

Dharma Mittra

#7. If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.

Gore Verbinski

#8. Don't be afraid to imagine yourself doing something bigger than you have the resources to do right now. Dreaming is free. It costs nothing, but your time.

Daniela Gabrielle

#9. Close your eyes for a few seconds and imagine yourself playing Super Mario Brothers.

Anonymous

#10. Start dream building. Raise your standards to excellence. Imagine yourself at your best and work on self-improvement. Transform yourself to a higher state of being, by concentrating on becoming excellent at what you want.

Mark LaMoure

#11. Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

Chelsea Clinton

#12. When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.

Chris Prentiss

#13. Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

Caroline Leavitt

#14. Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

Joachim Peiper

#15. When you are about to badger the weak,Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

Thiruvalluvar

#16. When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#17. The imagination can be a kind of wilderness, too, in fact a wasteland, if you allow it to take you into one bleak and grotesque place after another, for you can imagine yourself into all kinds of paranoid delusions and even into madness.

Dean Koontz

#18. As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

Darren Star

#19. Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

Margaret Atwood

#20. I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.

Toby Emmerich

#21. Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.

Obert C. Tanner

#22. The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.

Brian Tracy

#23. Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

David Viscott

#24. Imagine yourself encountering the risen Jesus. What do you see? What do you hear? How might you feel?

Daniel J. Harrington

#25. If you're public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you're nervous about a date and thinking, 'I'm gonna be a dork,' picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain.

Lindsey Stirling

#26. Imagine yourself as a pebble which has been thrown into a river. The pebble sinks through the water effortlessly. Detached from everything, it falls by the

Thich Nhat Hanh

#27. It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

L.M. Montgomery

#28. The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin ... Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

Anthony De Mello

#29. Imagine yourself standing on a shore: waves rhythmically rising, rising, and then suddenly they stay there, they set, they freeze.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#30. Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.

Brian Tracy

#31. We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

Salman Rushdie

#32. You won't step on other's toes if you imagine yourself in their shoes.

Rick Warren

#33. You are here. However you imagine yourself to be, you are here. Imagine yourself as a body, you are here. Imagine yourself as God, you are here. Imagine yourself as worthless, superior, nothing at all, you are still here. My suggestion is that you stop all imagining, here.

Gangaji

#34. I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Chelsea Clinton

#35. Imagine yourself as a living house.

C.S. Lewis

#36. Imagine yourself at your funeral. Ask yourself what you want your family and friends to say about you. How will you be remembered and what impact will you have had on other people's lives? How did you make the world a better place?

Robert Cheeke

#37. To fully understand another's views, you have to imagine yourself in their shoes.

Jonathan G. Meyer

#38. To imagine yourself inside another person ... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Eudora Welty

#39. Now imagine yourself living in a space that contains only things that spark joy. Isn't this the lifestyle you dream of?

Marie Kondo

#40. The trick when it comes to dealing with depression is being able to imagine yourself out of it. When you can picture a happier life, you will be determined to work at the things that prevent it from happening.

Keysha Jade

#41. The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that.

Will Advise

#42. Seek only to be genuine. Strive to be sincere. If you wish to undo all the "damage" you imagine yourself to have done, demonstrate that in your actions.

Neale Donald Walsch

#43. The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Oscar Wilde

#44. The best lessons I've been taught is that you should definitely have a plan. Try to imagine yourself six months in advance, and always save your money. Because there are always going to be unintended expenses that are going to come up. Surprises always happen.

K. Guillory

#45. Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Lewis Carroll

#46. Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.

Lauren Willig

#47. If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now.

Goswami Kriyananda

#48. Why not imagine yourself successful?

Maxwell Maltz

#49. Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.

Alane Adams

#50. There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.

Jane Hamilton

#51. If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#52. The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves ... because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it.

George Lucas

#53. Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.

Gus Van Sant

#54. Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward.

Ann Leckie

#55. When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."

Jenna Marbles

#56. Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

Sarah Dessen

#57. Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on.

Deepak Chopra

#58. Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.

Frederick Lenz

#59. Still, I could not imagine how being poor could be worse than being rich and hating yourself. I had seen enough of what it was like to be dead. It was time to try living.

James Patrick Kelly

#60. You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue.

Iris Murdoch

#61. I try to imagine what it must be like to have art inside of you and then to not have it anymore. To lose it, to not be able to find it, to search for it... Maybe that is a good reason to kill yourself.

Courtney Summers

#62. Habits of an empowerED teacher: "read, notice, think, make theories about how writing works, imagine possibilities, write yourself; it isn't magic, it's just slow, creative work.

Penny Kittle

#63. Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

Angie Martinez

#64. The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Harold Pinter

#65. When you can clearly see yourself being there, you can see much more clearly how to get there. You can imagine the path to your dreams, and then start to actually walk it. Play an active role in your own future. Imagine with passion and detail how you'd most like it to be.

Ralph Marston

#66. Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

John Malkovich

#67. God gave us imaginations because he wants us to see the photos of our destinies respectively and make proper graphical designs of them. You owe it to yourself to enlarge that image you carry into bigger sizes.

Israelmore Ayivor

#68. When you don't hear others, you don't imagine them, they become unreal, and you are left in the wasteland of a world with only yourself in it, and that surely makes you starving, though you know not for what, if you have ceased to imagine others exist in any true deep way that matters.

Rebecca Solnit

#69. All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.

Michael Chabon

#70. My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

Barry Deutsch

#71. Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Epictetus

#72. Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

Maxwell Maltz

#73. Two: Distract yourself. Paris has something for everyone. Let's imagine you are feeling slightly disenchanted with women. Dozens of places will persuade you that a beautiful woman is nothing more than a beautiful man in a dress.

Francine Prose

#74. Life is addition! Death is subtraction. You add to your life by imagining whatsoever things are true, lovely, noble, and Godlike. Imagine and feel yourself successful, and you must become successful. You are never a slave to circumstances, environment, or conditions.

Joseph Murphy

#75. You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something with any real degree of understanding until you've personally walked the road yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#76. Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

Yoko Ono

#77. Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not.

George Clooney

#78. Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

Pablo Picasso

#79. I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

Deval Patrick

#80. Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Idries Shah

#81. 1. Pause and Picture: Pause, allowing your child a moment to orient herself. Even more important, center yourself as well. Picture yourself giving your child a direction that she fulfills well. Allow yourself to imagine

Kim John Payne

#82. What could he do with a pile of scratch that big? Jesper could just imagine his father saying, Land yourself in a pile of shit twice as big. Saints, he missed him.

Leigh Bardugo

#83. Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

Vinoba Bhave

#84. A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#85. Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#86. Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action!

Ron Baratono

#87. I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.

George W. Bush

#88. Compare yourself to no one else but yourself. It's not about anybody else's anything. It's about YOU. Are you the best you? That's all you need to worry about. Imagine how awesome it would be if everyone just worried about making themselves the best they could be!

Beth Ramsay

#89. You know how as a kid you picture yourself with a tall, handsome husband, and you imagine him cuddling your baby? Ben is like that, like, on crack.

Jennifer Garner

#90. Whether you consider yourself a believer or a skeptic, I invite you to seek the same kind of honesty and to grow in an understanding of the nature of your own doubts. The result will exceed anything you can imagine.

Timothy Keller

#91. No matter what challenging situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome of it and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change the situation into what you want!

Rhonda Byrne

#92. I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't imagine going through that. If you know that's going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I'd rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Taylor Swift

#93. If you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.

Paul Graham

#94. Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that's what the mind is for.

Margaret Atwood

#95. Sometimes I think we only imagine ourselves. It's hard sometimes, coming face-to-face with your truer nature
the part that you conceal, even from yourself.

Elizabeth Kelly

#96. I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

Hugh Dancy

#97. I wish in the city of your heart
you would let me be the street
where you walk when you are most
yourself. I imagine the houses:
It has been raining, but the rain
is done and the children kept home
have begun opening their doors.

Robley Wilson

#98. You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

Margaret Drabble

#99. A "renegade dream" is to imagine a different future for yourself and your community even when living a life that's at odds with the dignity of your aspirations.

Laurence Ralph

#100. I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.

Mads Mikkelsen