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“Anyone who has shared something personal and received a thoughtless or uncomprehending response knows how it makes your soul want to crawl back in its hiding place. Whether someone is confessing a misdeed, proposing an idea, sharing a dream, revealing an anxiety, or recalling a significant event—that person is giving up a piece of him or herself. And if you don’t handle it with care, the person will start to edit future conversations with you, knowing, “I can’t be real with this person.”
― Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

“The most valuable lesson I’ve learned as a journalist is that everybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you.”
― Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

“J. Pierpont Morgan said, “A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one, and the real one.”
― Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

“In Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, “Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.”
― Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters