For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time'… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
“People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom , first, last and always a prisoner of his biological organism. No matter how hard he tries, it is impossible for him to the best himself of his own culture, where it has penetrated to the roots of his… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind. — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
