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 ALDADon’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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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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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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And 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.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Your 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.
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