Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDAListening is being able to be changed by the other person.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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