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What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.
Philip Glass
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What this quote means

Perception shapes our understanding of communication and reality.

Philip Glass asserts that the way we perceive sounds and languages is influenced by our focus and intentions. This idea suggests that rather than creating something entirely new, we can reshape our understanding and interpretation of existing concepts and expressions through a nuanced approach to listening and engaging with them.

Themes

PerceptionFocusLanguageUnderstandingCommunication

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Example use cases

In a discussion on the power of perspective in art.

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The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.
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A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.
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