{"quotes":[{"text":"To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["advance","approving","being","classifying","controverting","disapproving","dueling","evaluating","free-associating","heard","improving","listen","passively","portions","presupposing","rare","really","rebuttal","rehearsing","said","self-effacingly","succeeding","wholly"],"id":7440,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah’k’hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["being","command","encounters","example","expected","naval","out","portions","short"],"id":139673,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-friends","bad-people","companies","companions","company","crafty","cunning","execution","food-for-thought","friendhships","friends","friendship","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","mission","portions","relationship","relationships","success","successful"],"id":150982,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-friends","bad-people","companies","companions","company","crafty","cunning","execution","food-for-thought","friendhships","friends","friendship","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","mission","pee","portions","relationship","relationships","success","successful","urinate"],"id":175298,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}