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.

Quote by Alan Alda

Topics: Alan Alda Quotes

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

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

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you...

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you...

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time...

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time...

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as...

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as...

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character...

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character...

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you...

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you...

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of...

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of...

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

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

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I...

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I...

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must...

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must...

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because...

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because...

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not...

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not...

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of...

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of...

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop...

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop...

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that...

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that...

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

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

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.