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Julian Treasure Quotes

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.

Julian Treasure

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession:
Nationality: american

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You Sometimes Sound Eat See Complex

There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.

John Darnielle

Art Challenge Value People Think

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Consequences Down Everyone Banquet

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Stephen Hawking

Cannot Argue Mathematical Really

When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.

Srikumar Rao

Change Good Money Yourself Effort

With pencil, you can always erase.

Sue Monk Kidd

You Always Pencil Erase

Anybody who's lived in the ghetto knows that you don't move during the daytime. Here's why: You don't want anyone to know you're leaving, and you don't want anyone knowing where you're going.

Tracy Morgan

You Ghetto Know Want Leaving Why

Offbeat questions are nearly impossible to prepare for, and they don't achieve the interviewer's objective - to test out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to perform under pressure. That's the bad news. The good news is that companies are moving away from them.

Travis Bradberry

Good Moving Impossible Thinking Bad

Cannes or Oscars is not only to bring happiness and recognition - they protect people like me. The world knows who you are. You can work. You can express. You can help other people. It's not only the star system. It's a symbol of freedom.

Rithy Panh

Work Happiness Freedom People World

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.

Romesh Gunesekera

Live Mean First Philippines Only

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

Miriam Makeba

Home Heart Mind Back Always Going

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

Life Struggle Long Dark

Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.

Louis MacNeice

Improvement Democracy Rest Criticism