ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe — you cant take a taxi. – Alan Alda
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What youll discover will be wonderful. What youll discover is yourself. – Alan Alda
Its too bad Im not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. – Alan Alda
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light wont come in. – Alan Alda
You cant get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what youre doing. What youll discover will be wonderful. What youll discover will be yourself. – Alan Alda
If I cant get the girl, at least give me more money. – Alan Alda
Im most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old. – Alan Alda
It isnt necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. Its only necessary to be rich. – Alan Alda
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you dont agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head. – Alan Alda
You wouldnt want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school. – Alan Alda
Im an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when its useful to use that anger. – Alan Alda
Heres my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until theyre fair with you. – Alan Alda
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. – Alan Alda
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. – Alan Alda
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 extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me. – 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 heart. – Alan Alda
