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.

I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.

I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.

Accept me for my strength. Love me for my weakness. Be there for the good and the bad. Remember, I will never be who you want me to become -- I am who I am.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success and hard work can help you accomplish anything.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

'Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

I don't care where you are in the world, people are aware of what technology is available to others. If you're in Nairobi, you're certainly aware of the iPhone.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

My dad wouldn't even start the car until he heard the click of every seat belt.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.