Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDASelling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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When 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.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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