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 Communication 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… — Julian Treasure Find Copy Share Image
In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. — Julian Treasure Architecture 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… — Julian Treasure Better Copy Share Image
If you're surrounded by noise all the time, it has a pretty bad effect on the spirit. — Julian Treasure Bad 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… — Julian Treasure Come 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… — Julian Treasure Bad 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 Communication 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… — Julian Treasure People 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 Children 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… — Julian Treasure Day 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… — Julian Treasure Come Copy Share Image
Men tend to listen in what I call a reductive way, which is to say for a point, for a solution. You… — Julian Treasure Communication Copy Share Image
I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on. — Julian Treasure Feel Copy Share Image
I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would… — Julian Treasure Children 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 Being Copy Share Image
The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time. — Julian Treasure Communication Copy Share Image
Sound changes moods, yet most of the sound around us is unplanned. — Julian Treasure Around Copy Share Image
Someone else's paper is fascinating until you buy it yourself. Then it loses its appeal, and you have to pass it on… — Julian Treasure Appeal Copy Share Image
We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes. — Julian Treasure Architecture 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 Communication Copy Share Image
As parents, we tend to be in Tell rather than Listen mode. — Julian Treasure Communication Copy Share Image
Most of us walk around with our ears switched off because so much noise is unpleasant. — Julian Treasure Around Copy Share Image
Sound in a space affects us profoundly. It changes our heart rate, breathing, hormone secretion, brain waves. It affects our emotions and… — Julian Treasure Brain Copy Share Image
