You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
ALAN ALDAYou’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
More Alan Alda Quotes
-
-
My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
ALAN ALDA -
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
ALAN ALDA -
What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
ALAN ALDA -
People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
ALAN ALDA -
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDA -
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 -
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.
ALAN ALDA -
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
ALAN ALDA -
My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
ALAN ALDA -
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
ALAN ALDA -
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
ALAN ALDA -
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
ALAN ALDA -
I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
ALAN ALDA -
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
ALAN ALDA -
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
ALAN ALDA