Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDARepublicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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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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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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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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It’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.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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