I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
ALAN ALDAEventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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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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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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