Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself Quotes

“[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.”
― Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

“So that's it. I've told you everything I know. Think clearly and think for yourself. Learn to use language to express those thoughts. Love somebody with all your heart. And with everyone, whether you love them or not, find out if you can be helpful. But really, it's even simpler than that. After all this time, and all these talks in public and in private, I think I get it now. If I were taking my friend Arnold's suggestion and spoke from my deathbed, I think I know what I'd say. I see now that I had my meaning all along, I just had to notice it. The meaning of life... is life. Not noticing life is what's meaningless, even down to the last second.”
― Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

“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

“For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.”
― Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

“There is no hidden meaning to life ... looking for one is our problem solving brain chasing its tail”
― Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

“Allowing this childish curiosity to continue on my whole life has given me a sense of satisfaction, and maybe even a sense of meaning. No matter how old I get I have the feeling that if I can keep this curiosity flame lit I will see the world in a way that never gets stale ... life will have a taste that delights”
― Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

“Dar acum, in loc de ratiune, multa lume se foloseste de dorinte, vise, mantre si incantatii. Incearca sa se vindece folosind cristale, magneti si ierburi cu proprietati necunoscute. Ti se ofera o pastila facuta din frunza unei plante necunoscute si ti se spune: "Ia-o, n-are cum sa-ti faca rau, e naturala." Dar naturala e si matraguna.”
― Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

“... it could be selling you anything. It could be a cult religion that could separate you from friends and family, or a quack medicine that could leave you paralyzed, or bogus political information that causes you to elect a numbskull to the presidency. God forbid.”
― Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself