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" It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening. "

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" For the great speakers, it's all about the audience. And the feeling they have is that they're giving a gift, of maybe knowledge or inspiration or motivation. "

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Motivation

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sound changes moods, yet most of the sound around us is unplanned. "

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Changes

Moods

" Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement. "

" I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If you're surrounded by noise all the time, it has a pretty bad effect on the spirit. "

" Sound in a space affects us profoundly. It changes our heart rate, breathing, hormone secretion, brain waves. It affects our emotions and our cognition. "

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Heart

Space

" In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Not even a woman cannot understand two people talking at the same time. "

" It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes. "

" Sadly, piped music in so many public spaces is often just more noise. Rarely is it carefully designed to enhance our experience; much more likely it is there because retailers have subscribed to an incorrect view that music makes people spend more. "

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Music

Experience

" 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. "

" There's a lot of research now showing that noise, and the lack of quiet working space, is one of the biggest issues for all office workers. "

" 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. "

" Music is made to be listened to, so you immediately have an issue where you're playing it in the background like wallpaper. Music doesn't want to behave like that. "

" I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future. "

" 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. "

" I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, 'My goodness, you look ugly this morning.' Perhaps that's not necessary. "

" We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6 for your inner voice that helps you write. "

" 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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Unique

You

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

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

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Listening

Noise

" We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our speaking. This tendency often evinces itself in two simple words: 'I know.' But if I know everything, what can I learn? Absolutely nothing. "