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.
ALAN ALDAOne day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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How 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?
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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