What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
ALAN ALDAWhat you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
ALAN ALDASome of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
ALAN ALDAI’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.
ALAN ALDAYou have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
ALAN ALDAAnd I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
ALAN ALDANothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
ALAN ALDAI don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
ALAN ALDAReal listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDAYour assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
ALAN ALDAIf you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
ALAN ALDASelling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
ALAN ALDAIt’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
ALAN ALDAFor humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
ALAN ALDABegin challenging your own assumptions.
ALAN ALDAThe good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
ALAN ALDAI’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.
ALAN ALDA