But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
ALAN ALDABut often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
ALAN ALDAI was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
ALAN ALDAInsanity is just a state of mind.
ALAN ALDAPeople who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
ALAN ALDAWhen I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
ALAN ALDAHow can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
ALAN ALDAKids are natural scientists.
ALAN ALDAEventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDABut if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
ALAN ALDAThis 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?
ALAN ALDAA taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
ALAN ALDARepublicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
ALAN ALDAI 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 ALDADon’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
ALAN ALDAI’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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