John Cleese Quotes

Но докато вижданията спрямо псуването и вулгарността се изменят в една посока през последните 40г., друга ценностна система сщкаш застрашава комедията, движейки се наобратно. Говоря за отричащата живота сила, наречена политическа коректност. Това може и да е започнало като добра помисъл, но скоро бе отвлечена и разбрана ad absurdum от няколко индивиди без чувство за мярка - което по орпделение означава, че нямат и никакво чувство за хумор.

Ето, че пред мен стоеше униформен идиот от най-висша степен - мъж, който дори в избраната от него сфера на експертност е съумял да остане тъп като галош. И не просто незнаещ (което лесно се поправя), а толкова несравнимо празноглав, че нямаше ни най-малка представа... колко шампионски, страховито скодоумен беше.

Laughter connects you with people. It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter.

It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

It seemed as though he had a fundamental belief that the merit of his argument depended on the strength of his feelings about the matter, and since he always felt uncontrollably passionate about everything, then clearly he was always right. This irrational claptrap, coming as it did from a swarthy, excitable, plump Celtic demi-dwarf, struck me not just as thoroughly impertinent but also as a noisy and ignorant attempt to undermine the most basic principles of the Enlightenment.

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

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one’s own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it’s done mainly for show, it’s still a start. It

I have always noticed that any kind of pressure narrows my awareness and stunts my curiosity, because once I apply my nose to the grindstone I find it difficult to stick it up in the air again to smell the flowers. Of course a degree of obsession often produces the best work; but it does not produce the best life.

I think this view misses the essential point of running away, which is to do it the moment the idea has occurred to you. Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, “Let’s run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.

a tree in the village of Brent Knoll, a few miles away, under whose shade I recall lying, while I looked through its branches to the bright blue sky above. The sunlight is catching the leaves at different angles, so that my eye flickers from one patch of colour to the next, the verdant foliage displaying a host of verdant hues. (I thought I would try to get “verdant,” “hues” and “foliage” into this paragraph, as my English teachers always believed that they were signs of creative talent. Though I probably shouldn’t have used “verdant” twice.)

Доброто чувство за хумор е знак за здрава мисъл - затова и хората, които се чувстват неудобно от хумора, са или помпозни (надути) или невротични (свръхчувствителни).

The trouble is that most people want to
be right. The very best people, however,
want to know if they’re right

"Един от професорите ни описваше лекциите като "мистичен процес, в който бележките от тетрадката на лектора преминават в тетрадката на студента, без да преминат през ума на нито един от двамата"."

The general principle is this: the bigger the leap, the longer the creative period is likely to be.

creativity plummets. This is because they think they have nothing more to learn.