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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. "

Julian Treasure

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" 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. "

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" Sound is complex; there are many countervailing influences. It can be a bit like a bowl of spaghetti: sometimes you just have to eat it and see what happens. "

Julian Treasure

You

Eat

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have different filters. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

" Ears are made not for hearing but for listening. Listening is an active skill, whereas hearing is passive. Listening is something that we have to work at - it's a relationship with sound. And yet, it's a skill that none of us are taught. "

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

" 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. "