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

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Men tend to listen in what I call a reductive way, which is to say for a point, for a solution. You know, we like to have a problem and solve it. Bang. Thank you very much. On to the next thing. "

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" If we're not listened to, then that doesn't create a desire inside us to listen to others. Societally, we don't value it. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" I've heard many reports of police attending scenes of domestic violence where they've had to turn off music and televisions and radios. Noise tends to drive us a bit crazy. "

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" The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of being seen as we really are: as flawed human beings who are perfectly imperfect and full of contradictions and confusions. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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