Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDAI wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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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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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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