Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

Time

" 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. "

Julian Treasure

Unique

You

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

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

Julian Treasure

Listening

Noise

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm totally obsessed with sound. It's my life. "

" Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings. "

" If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself. "

" If you put music on top of noise, it's like putting icing on top of mud; it might look like a cake, but it doesn't taste like one. "

" 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. "

" 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

Space

" The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships. "

" I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not? "

" In a room full of 60 to 70 people which is open plan and absolutely quiet, it's very intimidating to make a phone call. And if you do so, you're upsetting about 15 to 20 people because they're put off by your phone call. "

" 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. "

Julian Treasure

Music

Experience

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

" We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking or, more importantly still, listening. "

Julian Treasure

Writing

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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Retailers don't think about why they have music. There are a number of issues. It can be very powerful in the right place, where it is played appropriately. "