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[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 Alda

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
ALAN ALDA

Ask Hell Lot Me War Worse
What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
ALAN ALDA

Discover Wonderful Yourself
Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
ALAN ALDA

Communication Depend Good Live Our Place
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.
ALAN ALDA

Accomplish Back Fin Life Look Satisfaction Sene Thing Through
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
ALAN ALDA

Actor Great Herself Itself Lucky Performance Really Transform
I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
ALAN ALDA

Character Find Put Way Word
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
ALAN ALDA

City Comfort Go Intuition Leave Wilderness
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
ALAN ALDA

Alien Body Kid Leave Thirteen Turn Until Twenty
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
ALAN ALDA

Aim Doubt Get Laugh Yourself
I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
ALAN ALDA

Badly Box Corner Form Get Listen Out Question Step
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
ALAN ALDA

Get Investment Live Mean Scrupulously Small Spent Sure Teen
Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
ALAN ALDA

Do Docus Everybody Moment Relax Toe
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
ALAN ALDA

Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
ALAN ALDA

Connections Listening Waiting
I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
ALAN ALDA

Court Frequent People Real Some Steal Stop Them
I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
ALAN ALDA

Atheist Guess Infidel Possibly Unbeliever Uncertain Uncomfortable World

[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.

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[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.

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