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" 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time. "

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" Most people think it's a linear relationship: I speak, you listen. Actually, it's a circle, because the way you listen affects how I speak, and the way I speak affects the way you listen. "

" You can detect a hostile listening or a bored listening or a tired listening or an excited and engaged listening. "

" 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. "

" Let's define listening as making meaning from sound. It's a mental process, and it's a process of extraction. We use some pretty cool techniques to do this. One of them is pattern recognition. "

" A great deal of our work involves switching music off. "

" It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else's. "

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" There are just huge benefits to come from designing for the ears in our health care. "

" By starting to pay attention to our natural soundscapes, businesses can reduce staff turnover, increase productivity, and increase profits. "

" 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. "

" We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority. "

" While interrupting is not always wrong, it should never become a habit. "

" We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes. "

" This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being listened to by their parents. "

" Music is the most powerful sound there is, often inappropriately deployed. It's powerful for two reasons: you recognize it fast, and you associate it very powerfully. "

" Most of us walk around with our ears switched off because so much noise is unpleasant. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time. "

" We're designing environments that make us crazy. And it's not just our quality of life which suffers. It's our health, our social behavior, and our productivity as well. "

" 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. "

" Your ears are always on - you have no ear lids. They work even when you sleep. "

" Noise is the number one problem in modern offices. A big part of addressing this issue is making sure unwanted sound from adjacent spaces doesn't intrude or interfere. "

" I love reading other people's papers on the Tube. "

" Unlike so many other sounds, there's no maximum exposure to birdsong. "

" You can't truly listen to someone and do anything else at the same time. "