John Cleese Quotes

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

He who laughs most, learns best.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

I could see (though not as clearly as I do now) that one of my biggest problems was me. Because I wanted everyone to like me and to approve of me, I tried to be nice to everyone all the time and this proved a remarkably efficient way of losing control over my life.

There's always been limitations on what they're allowed to say. Why you go to Molière and Louis XIV. I mean Molière had to be a bit careful. And there will always be limitations. I mean in England, until some ridiculous late date like 1965, all plays had to be submitted to what used to be a part of the palace called the Lord Chamberlain, and he would read it and there were hilarious letters used to go back was saying 'you may only say f--- once,' this sort of- ‘and you cannot say bugger. But you can say-' this sort of ridiculous negotiating letters.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

New ideas are rather like small creatures. They’re easily strangled.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

but now I began to notice odd moments that suggested he was not the brightest lighthouse on the coastline. For instance, he once got very cross during assembly because he felt the boys had become lazy, and so he demanded that every single boy in the school should improve his ranking in class in the course of the next fortnight.

toffs could get up to speed. But Ben at least knew roughly

<p>But once it's been agreed when that real-world decision has to happen, why make it before the deadline arrives?</p>
<p>Why</p>
<p>Well, it would be foolish, because if you can wait longer, two incredibly important things may happen.:</p>
<p>
You may get new information.
</p>
<p>
You may get new ideas.
</p>
<p>So why would you make a decision when you don't need to?</p>

But at the end of the day, you and only you must decide which criticisms and suggestions you accept.