Winston Churchill's Reflection: "It Takes Courage to Get up and Talk; It Also Takes Courage to Sit and Listen"

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Winston Churchill, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate in Literature in 1953, shared a reflection on courage: “It takes courage to get up and speak; it also takes courage to sit and listen.” This phrase breaks with a common idea: we usually associate courage with those who take the floor, but Churchill suggests that listening also requires courage. It involves opening up to different points of view, accepting the …