Paul Arden Quotes

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

I take references from the past and flip them.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.