If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
![“If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.” quote by Alan Alda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d9/alan-alda-1859_changed_if-you-don-t-listen-deeply-the-connectio_2177513.jpg)
