Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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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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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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