#visualization

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#purpose #visualization

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#philosophical-musings #visual-moments #visualization

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. ↗

— Edward R. Tufte

#design #statistics #visualization #design

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#visualization

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

#impossible #ordinary #possible #visualization

Above all else show the data. ↗

— Edward R. Tufte

#graphics #statistics #visualization

Check it out." Jonah removed the bubble wrap and held up the picture for his three cousins. Dan took a step backward. The shock was almost as powerful as it had been the day before at the Uffizi. "It's perfect! It's every bit as disgusting as the real one!" Amy nodded. "And so fast. We only called you yesterday." Jonah shrugged. "Even the Janus take a short cut every now and then. You can do a lot with digitization these days. You break the picture down to squares and reproduce them one at a time. The other two are just as fly." "You mean, hog ugly," Hamilton amended. "The serpents don't help," Dan put in critically. "Live fat spaghetti. Lady, if you're thinking of a modeling career, forget it!" The rapper clucked sympathetically. "You guys just don't appreciate the power of the visual image. The Wiz used to be like that–until Gangsta Kronikles. When you're in film industry, you understand the whole picture's-worth-a-thousand-words deal." Hamilton rolled his eyes. "Here we go again. ↗

— Gordon Korman

#visualization

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#associate #centrally #certain #concerned #music

There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects are made up of many elements—the sun, the water against the swimmer's chest, the vague quivering pink which one sees when the eyes are closed, the feeling of being swept away by a river or by sleep. These second degree objects can be combined with others; using certain abbreviations, the process is practically an infinite one. There are famous poems made up of one enormous word, a word which in truth forms a poetic object, the creation of the writer. The fact that no one believes that nouns refer to an actual reality means, paradoxically enough, that there is no limit to the numbers of them. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#language #reality #truth #visualization

I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared. ↗

— Allyson Felix

#believer #big #big believer #even #feel