[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
ALAN ALDAIt’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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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 . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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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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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest 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’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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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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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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