During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
ALAN ALDAListening is being able to be changed by the other person.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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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.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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