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.

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

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected.

With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not seconds. Sauteing is energy efficient; baking is not.

India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.

Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do.

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all.

May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace...

I needed some stability, which is why I chose not to change from HRC for this season, which was an option that we had. Apart from being the best team in the world, I also needed some consistency.

When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.

For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

Obviously, I care about the kids. Family, all that sort of stuff. But really, I don't care about life, don't care about death. Nothing. That's the kind of man you are dealing with. That's why I can't be beaten.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

My skin is pretty low-maintenance, but I'm a big sunscreen wearer, which I think is the big thing when it comes to wrinkles, right?

The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no mans education is complete.

He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.