Edward T. Hall Quotes
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Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced…
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. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows…
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The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer
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People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer…
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One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to…
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The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response…
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Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
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Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.
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The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can…
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The information is in the people, not in your head.
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I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
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Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?
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The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating…
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Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few…
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Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
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Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
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Age affects how people experience time.
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Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art…
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Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.
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The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in…
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