Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDAAlmost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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This 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?
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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