Paul Arden Quotes

People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many.

For me it's just, I have too many ideas, man. It's a problem, actually.

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

I'm better when I'm busy. I am happier. I am a bit useless when I'm not busy. I start thinking too much, which is never a good thing. When I'm busy I have a better perspective on what really matters - the priorities.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all.

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

Ironically, when a bunch of very smart people are sitting around a table for hours trying to figure out whether they should do something, that tends to not necessarily lead to the best results.

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.

I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much.

I can't do one thing at a time. If I'm writing song lyrics, I've got to be doing the ironing or cooking or something while I'm working. If I just sit there and stare at the walls, I get nothing.

Sometimes it's better to not read too much, to not listen to everybody.