Robert Fritz Quotes

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

There's no better feeling than having an idea and seeing it become reality, emerging in the physical world.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

To understand is to invent.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

Creation begins with vision.

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

Our job is to read things that are not yet on the page.

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

Look around less, imagine more.

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

What I can't create I don't understand

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.

I love creating. I am addicted to the drug of creation and creating things. I get a little depressed when I am struggling to find what I know is locked inside. If it's a lyric or something that is challenging me, I can be very depressed, but when it's like heaven opens up and it gives you a song, it's amazing. There's nothing else that I enjoy more probably.