Alan Alda Quotes

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.

Alan Alda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 28, 1936

Topics

YourselfCityWildernessYouComfort

I don't worry about stress. I create it.

Jim Mattis

StressWorryCreateAbout

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

Melanie Fiona

GoodMeGrowCanadaPrivilegeUp

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

LeadershipGreatTimePeopleAnxiety

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

Steve Albini

MusicDesignTryingBandThings

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Stefan Sagmeister

MyselfI AmPeopleThoughtFind

Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately.

Trip Lee

LifeWaitingWaitGenerationAdmit

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

Michel Patini

GreatPastMemoryWorldImportant

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Joseph Glanvill

ImpossibleJudgeAlwaysDeceiveMay

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

Jonathan Coe

FeelComfortableNeverLabelsThem

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

Deep Roy

PositiveGoodYourselfGood Things

I always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.

Deborah Wiles

LifeStoryMy LifeSayAlwaysTurn

My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.

David Shields

MeBasketballBadKnowPretendOnly

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