[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
ALAN ALDAI’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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 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 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.
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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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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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