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

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.

I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books - and now we have a book out. And all the time, books are prestigious. But there's sort of nothing like having the big hot show on television.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

Its still a compliment when youre backed by younger and older but its actually unexpected. Its surprising but for me its in fact the most beautiful compliment.

Since 'Idol' I've gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me, so I'm starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I'm happy to say 'Could we maybe change that?' if I don't like something. I don't yell or anything, but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look.

Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.

Think about it: if you were running a multi-million dollar company, and your database of customer information was stolen, would you want to tell your clients? No. Most companies did not until the laws required them to. It's in the best interest of organisations - when they're attacked and information is stolen - to tell nobody.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

I never say no to an ice cream.

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.

On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.