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.

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

I love country music so much. I love all kinds of music. But when it comes down to it, I'm from East Tennessee, and country melodies and country songs have always just sliced me in the heart.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

I don't see myself as a visionary at all.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

I'm all about 'Halo 2'.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

Let me explain something: I'm not incredibly rich.

I grew up with a wide range of music.

'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.

Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.