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 be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.

Alan Alda

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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 will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to... by Alan Alda

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

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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 in.

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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 leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

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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 willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a... by Alan Alda

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

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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where... by Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

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Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only n... by Alan Alda

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

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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 you.

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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. by Alan Alda

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.

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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money. by Alan Alda

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

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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 a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.

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