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

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 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.

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.

Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: 'Isn't that that Bening woman?'

The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.

Respect is love in plain clothes.

We suffer as a result of our own actions it is unfair to blame anybody for it.

The dinosaurs are remembered only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command not knowing what we shall draw.

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.

If I had all the spotlight, that would be great. I'd be happy with that. If I didn't have the spotlight, that would be great as well.

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

I wear my age with pride.

It is a darned sight easier to find six men who can tell exactly how a thing ought to be did than to find one who will do it.

Women have no government.

When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.

For me, if I attack two or three times but didn't get the point, then I would get nervous.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

Once the rice is pudding, it's too late to reclaim the rice.