If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas
John CleeseRead
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Allowing time for play fosters creativity in workers.
This quote by John Cleese emphasizes the importance of playfulness and freedom in the creative process. Cleese suggests that in order to cultivate innovative and imaginative workers, organizations must provide them with sufficient time and space to explore and engage in playful activities, which can lead to more original and effective ideas.
Themes
CreativityPlayWorkImaginationInnovation
In practice
Example use cases
In a team meeting, when discussing project development, one could say, 'As John Cleese noted, if you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.'
More from John Cleese
All quotes →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.
John CleeseRead
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.
John CleeseRead
In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
John CleeseRead
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 CleeseRead
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
John CleeseRead
Similar quotes
Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.
Joss WhedonRead
Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.
Tim O'ReillyRead
You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?
Elizabeth GilbertRead
It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively.
Nelson AlgrenRead
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
Julia CameronRead
All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
Seth GodinRead