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“Your ears are always on - you have no ear lids. They work even when you sleep.”
“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.”
“I love reading other people's papers on the Tube.”
“A great deal of our work involves switching music off.”
“Not even a woman cannot understand two people talking at the same time.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You can't truly listen to someone and do anything else at the same time.”
“I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, 'My goodness, you look ugly this morning.' Perhaps that's not necessary.”
“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.”
“If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself.”
“If we teach our children how to listen properly to the world - and especially to each other - they will understand the consequences of their own sound and be far more responsible in making it.”
“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 inner voice that helps you write.”
“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.”
“I'm totally obsessed with sound. It's my life.”
“You can detect a hostile listening or a bored listening or a tired listening or an excited and engaged listening.”
“There's a lot of research now showing that noise, and the lack of quiet working space, is one of the biggest issues for all office workers.”
“I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on.”
“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.”
“In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound.”