John Cleese

laugh most learn best

“He who laughs most, learns best”

― John Cleese

life terminal disease sexually transmitted

“Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.”

― John Cleese

creative workers time to play

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

― John Cleese

creative fear mistake

“Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”

― John Cleese

creativity talent operating

“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”

― John Cleese

portray businessman bland cruel incompetent

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

― John Cleese

god eat animals meat

“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?”

― John Cleese

creativity mind rest subject friendly persistent unconscious

“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.”

― John Cleese

idea know laptop computer

“We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.”

― John Cleese

sad stupidity do nothing

“The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.”

― John Cleese

cat intelligent

“Cats are very intelligent at all the things that cats need to be intelligent about.”

― John Cleese

grow older nobody knows talking about

“You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.”

― John Cleese

few things life matter little

“Only a few things in life matter a little. The rest don’t matter at all.”

― John Cleese

old 66 world madhouse fantasy

"When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much."

― John Cleese

creativity talent play

"Creativity is not the possession of some special talent.

It’s about the willingness to play."

― John Cleese

planet no hope gone problem

"No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem."

― John Cleese

world insane spot sanity

"The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!"

― John Cleese

differences british american english world championship knee

"There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have a "World Championship", we invite teams from other nations. Three, when you meet the British head of State, you only have to get down on one knee."

― John Cleese

creative people tolerate discomfort ponder time solution

"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

Aping urbanity vanity manatee faking insanity

"Aping urbanity,

Oozing with vanity,

Plump as a manatee,

Faking humanity,

Intellectual inanity,

Journalistic calamity,

Fox Noise insanity,

You're a profanity,

Hannity."

― John Cleese

english cuisine chip

"The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip."

― John Cleese

stupir impossible know

“If you are really, really stupid, then it’s impossible for you to know you are really, really stupid.”

― John Cleese