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All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66863<![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235<![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25210<![CDATA[Well done is better than well said. -Unknown. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25211<![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25212<![CDATA[It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. -Thoreau. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25213<![CDATA[The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25214<![CDATA[Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25215<![CDATA[If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25216<![CDATA[When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25217<![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25207<![CDATA[The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25208<![CDATA[Man who know little say much. Man who know much say little. -Unknown. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25209<![CDATA[An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25206<![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25202<![CDATA[The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25203<![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25204<![CDATA[The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25205<![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25196<![CDATA[The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25197<![CDATA[We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25198<![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25199<![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25200<![CDATA[Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25201<![CDATA[It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25191<![CDATA[You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25192<![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193<![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25194<![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25195<![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25185<![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25186<![CDATA[Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25187<![CDATA[Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25188<![CDATA[Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25189<![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190<![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25182<![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25183<![CDATA[Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25175<![CDATA[From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25176<![CDATA[I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25177<![CDATA[A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25178<![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25181<![CDATA[He holds him with his glittering eye-- . . . . And listens like a three years' child. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25167<![CDATA[Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That's merrier than the nightingale. - Henry Wadsworth ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25168<![CDATA[In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25169<![CDATA[And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25170<![CDATA[And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25171<![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25172<![CDATA[Listen. Don't explain or justify. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25173<![CDATA[Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25174