Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
ALAN ALDAI’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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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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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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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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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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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