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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" It's an interesting door opening, this use of sonic signalling - using sound to alert us in a more subtle way than a beep. "

" All of our physical rhythms are being affected by sound outside us all the time. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As parents, we tend to be in Tell rather than Listen mode. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate so that you can hear the quiet again. If you can't get absolute silence, go for quiet; that's absolutely fine. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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