“Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of gnawing emptiness, longing, frustration, and displaced anger overwhelms people when this occurs. Whether the anger is turned inward… — 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… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
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
