Noun
a clear and telling mental image
Source: WordNetFormulate 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... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale
Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept. Laurette Taylor
The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it's comforting; because it's so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so. Michael Lewis (author)
To obtain a mental picture of the distance to the nearest star, compared to the nearest planet, you must imagine a world in which the closest object to you is only five feet away - and there is nothing else to see until you have travelled a thousand miles. Arthur C. Clarke
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. Robert Collier
You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself. Wallace D. Wattles