I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAWhen does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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