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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. - Julian Treasure
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If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself. - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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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. - 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. - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes. - Julian Treasure
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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
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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. - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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You can detect a hostile listening or a bored listening or a tired listening or an excited and engaged listening. - Julian Treasure
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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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The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships. - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority. - Julian Treasure
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It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have different filters. - Julian Treasure
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I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not? - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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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. - Julian Treasure
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