328 Quotes by John Cleese

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.

Because, 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.

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

Getting discouraged is a total waste of your time.

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

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.

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

One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of the lecturer pass on to the pad of the student, without passing through the mind of either'.