We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is...… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own… — 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
. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind. — Edward T. Hall Copy Share
It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share
We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others,… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share
Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing. — Edward T. Hall Copy Share
