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.
ALAN ALDAAwards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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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’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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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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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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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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