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.
Alan AldaRead
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.
Interpretation
Stepping outside of your comfort zone can lead to profound self-discovery and growth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of venturing beyond familiar surroundings and comfort zones to explore one's intuition. Alan Alda suggests that by confronting uncertainty and embracing the wilderness of our instincts, we can uncover our true selves and experience transformative discoveries that enrich our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
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.
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.
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
We have too often been expected to speak _x000D_ all things to all people and speak everyone else's position _x000D_ but our own.
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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