Imagining Yourself Quotes:

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Being Yourself, Business, Practice, True Nature, Imagining Yourself

Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Meaningful, Art, Inspiration And Creativity, Imagine That

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

- Duane Chapman

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Jobs, Car, Substance, Seeing Yourself, Imagining Yourself

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment. But it is something that when I made "The Devil Wears Prada" it was the first time in my life, 30 years of making movies, that a man came up and said I know how you felt. I know how you felt. I have a job like that. People understand.

- Meryl Streep

source: "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

topic: Girl, Jobs, Men, Prada, Deep Things

You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Letting Go, Real, Heart, Give It A Chance, Imagining Yourself

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

- Yo-Yo Ma

topic: Memories, Brain, Connections, Rehearsing, Muscle Memory

It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out of that window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These excercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.

- Susanna Kaysen

source: "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1994.

topic: Distance, Fall, Numbness, Torso, Girl Interrupted

Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls of cookies.Watch exercise shows on television, but don't do the exercises. Practice believing that the benefit lies in imagining yourself doing the exercises.Don't power walk. Saunter slowly in the sun, eating chocolate, and carry a blanket so you can take a nap.

- Sark

topic: Lying, Book, Believe, Eating Chocolate, Imagining Yourself

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

- Gary Gygax

source: "Gary Gygax, Game Pioneer, Dies at 69" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2008.

topic: Character, Winning, Games, Wild Wild West, Wild West