"We're highly social animals - I'm told by……" — Alan Alda
"We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful."
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Alan Alda
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101 Quotes by Alan Alda
Alan Alda has 101 quotes on this site.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with…
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty,…
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile,…
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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…
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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…
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You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing.…
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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better…
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is…
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More Acute Quotes
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one of 154 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
— Leonard Cohen
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is…
— Sun Tzu
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of…
— Sigmund Freud
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by…
— Hippocrates
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching,…
— Jennifer Worth
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape…
— George Meredith
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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