81 Quotes by Julian Treasure

I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, 'My goodness, you look ugly this morning.' Perhaps that's not necessary.

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

The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time.

I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future.

I'm totally obsessed with sound. It's my life.

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.

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.

We move through soundscapes all the time, and most of them are accidental - a by-product. Most retail soundscapes are accidental, incongruent with the brands, and mostly hostile.

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