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.
ALAN ALDAWhat you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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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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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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