What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
ALAN ALDASelling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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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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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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