Volume Control Quotes

“There’s a cognitive theory which basically says that our mental capacity is finite, like a glass of water, and we can allocate it among various activities—driving a car, having a conversation, reading a book. But if you have hearing loss you need a lot of that just for listening, and the more you need for listening the less you have left for anything else you want to do.”
― David Owen, Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World

“the movie Dr. Strangelove. President Kennedy was assassinated shortly before the movie was completed, and in post-production Stanley Kubrick had Slim Pickens dub the word “Vegas” over the word “Dallas” in one of his lines. “I always heard ‘a pretty good weekend in Degas”
― David Owen, Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World

“Thinking Map,”
― David Owen, Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World

“One day, though, she got a call from someone at IntriCon, a small Minnesota company that describes itself, on its website, as a creator of “miniature and micro-miniature body-worn medical and electronics products.” IntriCon”
― David Owen, Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World

“Thirty-six hundred years ago, Egyptian physicians treated people who had hearing problems by filling their ear canals with mixtures of olive oil, red lead, ant eggs, bat wings, and goat urine.”
― David Owen, Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World