quotes by 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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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)

"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