The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
ALAN ALDAReally top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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