Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I love reading other people's papers on the Tube. "
Julian Treasure
Reading
I Love
People
Related Quotes:
" My mother, in the last years of her life, became very negative, and it's hard to listen. I remember one day, I said to her, 'It's October 1 today,' and she said, 'I know, isn't it dreadful?' It's hard to listen when somebody's that negative. "
Julian Treasure
Mother
Today
October
" If we teach our children how to listen properly to the world - and especially to each other - they will understand the consequences of their own sound and be far more responsible in making it. "
Julian Treasure
Consequences
Listen
World
" If we're not listened to, then that doesn't create a desire inside us to listen to others. Societally, we don't value it. "
Julian Treasure
Listen
Others
Value
" Someone else's paper is fascinating until you buy it yourself. Then it loses its appeal, and you have to pass it on to someone else to reinvigorate it. "
Julian Treasure
Someone
Buy
Yourself
" I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on. "
Julian Treasure
Little
Hotels
Going
" It's dangerous to generalise about sound because many of its effects work through association. These can be universal: we all instinctively associate any sudden, unexpected noise with danger and react with a release of fight/flight hormones, while most people find sounds like gentle rainfall or birdsong calming and reassuring. "
Julian Treasure
Unexpected
React
Work
" Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect children to pick it up from home or from peers informally. "
Julian Treasure
Children
Skill
Life
" Every individual's listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal mix of culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations and intentions. That is why one person's musical taste is another person's hideous noise. "
Julian Treasure
Unique
Culture
Expectations
" Intention is very important in sound, in listening. When I married my wife, I promised her I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. Now that's something I fall short of on a daily basis. "
Julian Treasure
Day
Time
Listening
" The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one that can start a war or say 'I love you.' And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them. "
Julian Treasure
I Love You
War
Love
" I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, 'My goodness, you look ugly this morning.' Perhaps that's not necessary. "
Julian Treasure
Ugly
Think
Morning
" We move through soundscapes all the time, and most of them are accidental - a by-product. Most retail soundscapes are accidental, incongruent with the brands, and mostly hostile. "
Julian Treasure
Move
Most
Time
" There's a little bit of protocol in the real world which is quite important. If you speak to me, we understand that we've entered into a social contract. But sound that you haven't given permission to receive is noise, and generally unwelcome. "
Julian Treasure
Real
Important
Me
" I'm totally obsessed with sound. It's my life. "
Julian Treasure
My Life
Totally
Life
" If you're listening consciously, you can take control of the sound around you. It's good for your health and for your productivity. If we all do that, we move to a state that I like to think will be sound living in the world. "
Julian Treasure
Think
Listening
Good
" A sonic logo on its own isn't going to do very much. We get frustrated with smaller brands who come to us and say, 'We need a bing-bong'. You just can't encapsulate a brand for £500 in a three-second sound. It doesn't work. "
Julian Treasure
Say
Own
Need
" Music is designed to be listened to, so it's calling for attention all the time, syphoning off our very limited auditory bandwidth and elbowing aside our ability to listen to the voice in our head we need when we're doing mental work. "
Julian Treasure
Need
Time
Work
" When you hear a child's voice, it will have that immediate effect of putting you in mind of looking after children. "
Julian Treasure
Mind
Voice
Looking
" In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. "
Julian Treasure
Years
Five
Day
" Sound affects us physiologically, psychologically, cognitively, and behaviorally all the time. The sound around us is affecting us even though we're not conscious of it. "
Julian Treasure
Sound
Us
Time
" People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise. "
Julian Treasure
Bad
Silence
People
" Unlike so many other sounds, there's no maximum exposure to birdsong. "
Julian Treasure
Unlike
Exposure
Other
" Not even a woman cannot understand two people talking at the same time. "
Julian Treasure
People
Understand
Time
" You are one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. I have a tip for you: if you work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on, and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be. "
Julian Treasure
Back Up
Sound
Work
" I often go into shops and ask them to turn the music down. "
Julian Treasure
Turn
Down
Go
" Sound in a space affects us profoundly. It changes our heart rate, breathing, hormone secretion, brain waves. It affects our emotions and our cognition. "
Julian Treasure
Heart
Us
Space
" It's an interesting door opening, this use of sonic signalling - using sound to alert us in a more subtle way than a beep. "
Julian Treasure
Interesting
Door
Way
" The Hindus say, 'Nada brahma,' one translation of which is, 'The world is sound.' And in a way, that's true, because everything is vibrating. "
Julian Treasure
Say
Everything
Sound
" You can detect a hostile listening or a bored listening or a tired listening or an excited and engaged listening. "
Julian Treasure
Bored
Listening
Excited
" All of our physical rhythms are being affected by sound outside us all the time. "
Julian Treasure
Sound
Us
Physical