“We've been given the power to have what we visualize, but we tend to visualize what we already have.”

“A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.”

“Now, we see what we are shown. We have gotten used to being shown no matter what, within or beyond the limited range of human sight. This habituation to the monopoly of visualization-on-command strongly suggests that only those things that can in some way be visualized, recorded, and replayed at will are part of reality...The result is a strange mistrusts of our own eyes, a disposition to take as real only that which is mechanically displayed in a photograph, a statistical curve, or a table. Eyewitness testimony must be "substantiated" by records that have been acquired, and can be stored and then shown.”

“The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.”

“None of us decide what we will be born into in this life, but we face our destinies with what we have been given.”

“As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.”