A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

—Katharine Whitehorn

About Katharine Whitehorn

Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn (2 March 1928 – 8 January 2021) was a British journalist, columnist, author and radio presenter. She was the first woman to have a column in The Observer, which ran from 1963 to 1996 and from 2011 to 2017. She was the first female rector of a...

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More quotations tagged with “listening”

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

—Hugh Elliott

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

—Dorothy Sarnoff

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

—Albert Guinon

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

—Marcel Archard

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