Exercise 1: Silence Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate, so that you can hear the quite again.

Differencing: We listen to differences; we discount sounds that remains the same. To make it easy for your conversation partners train to variate your voice.

Filters like, culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations, intentions etc. take us down to what we pay attention to.

Exercise 2: The Mixer If I am in a noisy place like a coffee bar or in nature at a lake try to identify the different noises. How many individual channels of sound can I hear? Where are they? It improves the quality of my listening.

Exercise 3: Savoring Learn to enjoy mundane sounds. It could be a tumble dryer or a coffee grinder. Try to identify repeating sound patterns or to find similar sounds.

Exercise 4: Listening Positions Play with my listening positions, get conscious about them and move my listening position to different places, whatever is appropriate to listen to.

Exercise 5: Recieve · Pay attention to the person Appreciate · Little verbal/noise feedback Summarise · very important Ask · questions afterwards

I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness also the ability to fly doesnt hurt

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

I drink to make other people interesting.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

And, so, Christmas comes to bless us! Comes to teach us how to find The joy of giving happiness And the joy of being kind.

I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.

The most important competition is always the next match.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.