Edward T. Hall

Age affects how people experience time.

— Edward T. Hall

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a…

— Edward T. Hall

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . .…

— Edward T. Hall

“People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom ,…

— Edward T. Hall

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

— Edward T. Hall

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing…

— Edward T. Hall

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to…

— Edward T. Hall

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

— Edward T. Hall

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little…

— Edward T. Hall

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned,…

— Edward T. Hall

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant…

— Edward T. Hall

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

— Edward T. Hall

It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity…

— Edward T. Hall

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

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

— Edward T. Hall

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

— Edward T. Hall

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release…

— Edward T. Hall

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

— Edward T. Hall

The information is in the people, not in your head.

— Edward T. Hall

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

... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own…

— Edward T. Hall

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

— Edward T. Hall

We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly…

— Edward T. Hall

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has…

— Edward T. Hall

Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of…

— Edward T. Hall