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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.

Alan Alda

Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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 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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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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I’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.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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Communication Depend Good Live Our Place
Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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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