Paul Arden Quotes

If you do come up with a new idea, in 4 seconds it will belong to somebody else.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

I am not really an inventor. I just steal my ideas from 8-year olds.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Egolessness is contentment.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.