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 ALDAListening is being able to be changed by the other person.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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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.
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