What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
ALAN ALDAI can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’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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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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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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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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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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