All Alan Alda Quotes
- 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… Acute
- Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Aim
- For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then… Believer
- I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. Asking
- Be brave enough to live creatively. Brave
- When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember… All
- Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are. Amount
- It's better to be wise than to be smart. Better
- Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself.… Accomplished
- Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries Discoveries
- When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and… Both
- And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't… Belief
- The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values. Good
- life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless… Bring
- I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director… Actor
- 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… Behind
- 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… Alive
- 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… According
- 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… All
- 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… Carry
- Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be. Cracked
- Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. Canoe
- As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time. Becoming
- Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. Change
- The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events. Any