If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas
John CleeseRead
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.
Interpretation
Taking decisive action is crucial when facing challenges.
This quote by John Cleese emphasizes the importance of commitment and focus when undertaking significant risks or challenges. At the moment of taking action, such as 'leaping a ravine', it's vital to concentrate on the task at hand rather than overthinking or reconsidering one's choices, as this can lead to doubt and failure.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage a team before a big game.
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas
Because, as we all know, itβs easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And itβs also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that weβre not so sure about.
In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
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.
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Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
I am just going outside and I may be some time
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You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.
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