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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

When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
ALAN ALDA

All Dep Feel Married Think Time Together
For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
ALAN ALDA

Fly Human Magic Physics
I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
ALAN ALDA

Act Impulse Nobody People Punch Something
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.
ALAN ALDA

Advice Avoid Change Dog Remember Stuff Surf
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
ALAN ALDA

Everyone Famous First Leery Really Suppose View Want
It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
ALAN ALDA

Beak Rare Susceptible Tend Understanding Unexpected Upset Virus
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

Do Docus Everybody Moment Relax Toe
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
ALAN ALDA

Girl Give Lease Money More
We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
ALAN ALDA

Acute Animal Awareness Different Highly Other Scientist Social Successful
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.
ALAN ALDA

Clear Have Longer Onto Something Really Time
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.
ALAN ALDA

Curious Hungry Relationship Science Someone Understand
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
ALAN ALDA

Amount Award Better Encourage Get Keep Matter Old Tremendous Young
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
ALAN ALDA

Brave Creative Else Enough Life Place
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.
ALAN ALDA

Business Dare Extensive Field Knowledge Myself People Place
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
ALAN ALDA

Across Hand Ate Let Rat Soup Tarantula
It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
ALAN ALDA

Big Character Interset More Nice Play Playable Scene Time Work

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