To outsiders familiar with the armageddon bearing down on the Iraqi leadership, their attitude has seemed redolent of an authoritarian elite in deep denial, incapable of grasping reality, either about their external enemies or the mood of less powerful Iraqis, because of years of listening mainly to echoes of themselves.
Literally, because this type of listening can let a person more fully express their Self, this deep listening can acknowledge them in a way manner which polite talk and censorship never will be able to.
We've also put in a much better culture of listening, because that's part of making people innovative.
(She has said that she did this because she got tired of listening to the audience cough. I wonder about that).
A dozen years ago, his friend Joan Ganz Cooney, Peterson's wife and the co-creator of the Children's Television Workshop, gave him a birthday gift of yoga lessons; after a while, he ditched the instructor, because he grew tired of listening to yogic philosophies, but he has kept up the yoga.
INTERACTIVE: Fall 2013 TV preview Butler said he was inspired to start a channel because he was tired of listening to his "successful, talented friends complaining that their agents weren't calling them for work".
It's a shame the receiver requires earbuds because one of the advantages of listening to a radio is that it serves well as background music, a concept lost on this device.
Sheryl Laing, who was the hospital's director of quality, later told Ms. Stagg that a nurse had turned off Mr. Borum's heart monitor because the nurse was tired of listening to the monitor beep.
Staging the play in the round has other benefits because it heightens our awareness of listening.
I don't have a lot of listening time because I'm often writing, so I don't listen to as much as I used to," he said.
