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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.

Alan Alda

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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Bad Beat Gravitate Half Non-obsessively People Play Seem Tennis Time
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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Change Duet Happen Interest More Pair Something Willing
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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Anything Back Bring Dead Deeper Dog Image Something Start Think
If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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Creative Know Look New Possible Previous Something
Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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Found Long Take Time Upset Wisdom
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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Careful Internet Like Mechanical Often Something Transformation
I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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Blow Catch Down Help Look Moment Rattlesnake Sat Several Volcano
It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Always Better Smart Wise
Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Brave Creative Discover Enough Wonderful Yourself
I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Actor Before Lead Nominate Part Support Twice
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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Badly Box Corner Form Get Listen Out Question Step
When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Another General Kill Laugh One People
Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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Great Know Life Without
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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Along Come Communication Interest Position Scientific Whatever Wonderful
[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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Actual Effect Let Listen Pause Person Wait Will Change
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Both Logic Respect Rule Same School Study Taught Think Time

Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.

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