Alan Alda Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”
-- Alan AldaSource : Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.
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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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“It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.”
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“How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?”
-- Alan AldaSource : "World Science Festival: Brian Greene and Alan Alda Bring Science to the Masses". Interview with Clare Richardson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 02, 2011.
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“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”
-- Alan AldaSource : Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.
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“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.”
-- Alan AldaSource : "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself". Book by Alan Alda, abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2007.
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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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“Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.”
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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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“I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.”
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“It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.”
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“The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.”
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“Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.”
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“Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.”
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“If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.”
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“For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.”
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“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.”
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“No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.”
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“People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.”
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“Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.”
-- Alan AldaSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.”
-- Alan AldaSource : Alan Alda (2009). “Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself”, p.21, Random House
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“In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.”
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“I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.”
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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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“We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.”
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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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“Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.”
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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. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?”
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