John Cleese Quotes

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.

Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.

My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

A 'problem' is nothing more than a gorgeous opportunity to discover an even better solution.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.

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?"

As intuition grows, the need to make problems and see complications starts to dwindle.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

The design is done when the problem goes away.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you.

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

I need to solve the problem. It's no different from how am I going to get my son out the door when he needs to go to school. It's a bigger version of that same type of problem.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli