If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
ALAN ALDANever 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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