Paul Arden Quotes

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.

I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.

Every problem has a creative solution.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

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

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.