Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
ALAN ALDALaugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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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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I 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.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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