Alan Alda Quotes

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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 Alda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  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 Alda

  Change, Teaching, Humility

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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.

  Alan Alda

  Real, Thinking, Differences

  "Alan Alda ... on Celebrity and Its Discontents". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. January 22, 2007.

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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 Alda

  Wise, Wisdom, Smart

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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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.

  Alan Alda

  Motivational, Smile, Laughter

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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. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.

  Alan Alda

  Light, Hands, People

  "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself". Book by Alan Alda, abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2007.

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• Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Brave, Intuition, Wonderful

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• Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Genius, Territory

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• Be brave enough to live creatively.

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  Brave, Be Brave, Enough

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• Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.

  Alan Alda

  Life Is Great, Life Is, Knows

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• The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

  Alan Alda

  Goodbye, Farewell, Heart

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• People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

  Alan Alda

  Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude, People

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• life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

  Alan Alda

  Life Is, Existence, Meaningless

  Commencement Speech at Connecticut College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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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.

  Alan Alda

  Dog, Reality, Advice

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• Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

  Alan Alda

  Compassion, Long, People

  "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself". Book by Alan Alda, abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2007.

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• Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Listening, Able

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Alda

  Artist, Use, Actors

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• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Laughter, Laughing, Doubt

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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.

  Alan Alda

  Strong, Men, World

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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.

  Alan Alda

  Communication, Boss, Helping

  Interview with Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. May/June 2013.

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• It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

  Alan Alda

  Funny, Happiness, Money

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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 Alda

  Track, Signals, Communicate

  "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 brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

  Alan Alda

  Life, Creativity, Creative

  Alan Alda (2009). “Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself”, p.21, Random House

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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.

  Alan Alda

  Country, Moving, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Alda

  Ideas, Sometimes, Shelves

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