Katie Porter Quotes

I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

[John F.] Kennedy was a great listener. As he listened his eyes got larger, and he looked at you, and you knew you had been looked at and listened to.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

When you ask people questions about what they've done, not only do you get knowledge, but they like you because people like to be asked questions about what they've done and talk to someone who's interested in them.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Listen more often than you speak.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

Be more interested than interesting.

You should focus on being more interested than interesting.

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Listen more than you talk.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.