It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
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… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
If you're listening consciously, you can take control of the sound around you. It's good for your health and for your productivity.… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Intention is very important in sound, in listening. When I married my wife, I promised her I would listen to her every… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
You can detect a hostile listening or a bored listening or a tired listening or an excited and engaged listening. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy,… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Every individual's listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Ears are made not for hearing but for listening. Listening is an active skill, whereas hearing is passive. Listening is something that… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6 for your… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it's when birds… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
You or I never buy an Intel product explicitly, and yet their sonic logo is far better known and more powerful than its visual… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
If you're surrounded by noise all the time, it has a pretty bad effect on the spirit. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of being seen… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
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.… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
When you hear a child's voice, it will have that immediate effect of putting you in mind of looking after children. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
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… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
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,… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
