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John Cleese - From the Activity category:
As we all know, it's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we're not so sure about. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Advice category:
Telling people how to be creative is easy. It's only being it that's difficult. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Beginning category:
If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell you if one might lead somewhere interesting. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
It's easier to be creative if you've got other people to play with. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Business category:
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Change category:
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Choices category:
The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Choices category:
Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Communication category:
Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Contrasts category:
We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately, spend most of their time in the closed mode. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Creativity category:
Creativity is not a talent; it's a way of operating. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Creativity category:
High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Curiosity category:
The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Desire category:
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Eccentricity category:
I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric! (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Efficiency category:
Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Expectation category:
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Humour category:
He who laughs most, learns best. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Ideas category:
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Intellect category:
Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Life category:
- Life and How to Survive It...
Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Mistakes category:
While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Originality category:
Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Pets category:
There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Play category:
The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Problems category:
We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Religion category:
I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Solitude category:
To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Suffering category:
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Technology category:
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Thought category:
To make your life more creative, just keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way; sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious. Out of the blue a new thought mysteriously appears - if you put in the pondering time first. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Timeliness category:
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent. (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Uniqueness category:
And now for something completely different... (John Cleese)
John Cleese - From the Work category:
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. (John Cleese)
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