Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDAI’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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