Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
ALAN ALDAReal listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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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[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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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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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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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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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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