Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
ALAN ALDAWhat you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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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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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.
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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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