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Mode Quotes by John Cleese
- We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more…
- The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
- The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing…
- We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then…
- 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…
More Mode Quotes
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is… — Samuel Johnson
- We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
- Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude,… — Jacqueline Bisset
- Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or… — Tom Peters
- Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So… — Elon Musk