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

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after...

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after...

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good,...

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good,...

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'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...

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

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...

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...

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was...

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was...

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to...

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to...

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

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

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

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

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...

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks...

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks...

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...

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...

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'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...

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.