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 st…

- Alan Alda

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come …

- Alan Alda

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

- Alan Alda

A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation,…

- Alan Alda

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make somethin…

- Alan Alda

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't…

- Alan Alda

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

- Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the …

- Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live creatively.

- Alan Alda