quotes by Alan Alda

"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself."
— Alan Alda

"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

"At times 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

"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 (Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned)

"Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you."
— Alan Alda (Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself)

"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!"
— Alan Alda

"What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?"
— Alan Alda

"I was what came to mind when there was blood on the floor."
— Alan Alda

"During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison.

On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody."
— Alan Alda (Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned)

"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
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— Alan Alda

"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. 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 will be yourself."
— Alan Alda

"When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. "
— Alan Alda

"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

"Klečel jsem před oltařem a otvíral ústa, aby mi kněz mohl na jazyk položit tu velkou kulatou oplatku. Od včerejší večeře to bylo první jídlo. v žaludku mi kručelo, přesto mě chuť toho tenkého kolečka z mouky a vody zvlaště děsila. Koneckonců, tohle nebyl chleba, to byl Ježíš. Ne symbol Ježíše, ale Ježíš sám. Zavřel jsem oči a domlouval sám sobě. Nekousej. Vůbec se toho nedotýkej zuby. A hlavně si to nepřilep na patro. Ach, bože, už se stalo. Dovolil jsi to. Bůh se ti přiepil na patro. Jak ho teď chceš dostat dolů? Musíš to dostat dolů a polknout. Co když to ztvrdne a zůstane tam? Nemůžeš až do večera chodit s bohem v puse. Ach, bože! Tak se rozpusť, rozpuštěj se."
— Alan Alda

"Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.
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— Alan Alda

"If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity."
— Alan Alda

"You have to leave the city of your comfort ano into the wilderness of your intuition. what you'll discover will be woderful. what you'll discover will be yourself."
— Alan Alda