As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
ALAN ALDABe as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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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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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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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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