I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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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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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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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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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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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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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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