Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
ALAN ALDAWhen people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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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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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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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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I 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.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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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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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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