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Other Quotes by Alan Alda
- Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
- It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and…
- I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no…
- People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.
- I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
- If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of…
More Other Quotes
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour