But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
ALAN ALDA[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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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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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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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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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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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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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