John Cleese Quotes

Whenever offers come my way, if I connect with it, then I am completely open to it.

If you're having fun, you wind up innovating.

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation.

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.