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Age affects how people experience time.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Age
People
Time Experience Age
Affects
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The information is in the people, not in your head.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Information
People
Head
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Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Lying
Paper
Pieces
Situation
Behind
Lies
Piece
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Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
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Culture
Evolve
Made
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By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Bureaucracy
Memories
Mind
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Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.
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Zoos
Break Out
Culture
Difficult
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The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Learning
Lasts
Strong
Teaching
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Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Important
Real
Two
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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.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Able
Desert
Jungle
May
Easily
Spot
Refrigerator
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Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Characteristics
Culture
Sitting
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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.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Whole
Whole World
World
God World Me
Nobody Else
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Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Desire
Light
Shining
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I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Interesting
Sometimes
Study
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Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Jobs
Real
Years
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Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
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Culture
Enough
Participants
More
Much
Own
Effectively
Hides
Reveals
Strangely
Than
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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.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Experts
People
Theatre
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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 his own self.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Men
Doe
Self
Basis
Cultural
Experiences
Valid
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We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Culture
Lives Of Others
Long
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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 terms of thousands of years.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Long
Long Time
Realistic
Thinking
Years
Future Time Long
Foreseeable
Foreseeable Future
However
Perfectly
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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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 / Anthropologist
Ballast
Giving Up
Intellectual
Radical
Risk
Understood
Willing
Thinking Me People
Meant
Few People
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How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Fantastic
Understood
Evolved
Measure
Reservoir
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Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Body
Realizing
Slow Motion
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. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Men
Diversity
Littles
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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 those details of life which differentiate them from you.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Attention
Culture
Details Of Life
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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 than to send the right message.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Communication
Essence
Important
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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 come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Differences
Interest In Life
Vitality
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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 other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Space
Sacred
Simple
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It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
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Life
Complexity
Individual
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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 is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Art
Men
Doe
Visual
Apt
Languages
Expects
Immediately
Primarily
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We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
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Relationship
Dominant
Language
Mean
Other Cultures
People
Understand
Does
Between
Denigrate
Help
Help People
Lose
Rather
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... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Culture
Movement
Voice
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When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Exercise
Numbers
People
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We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Life
Intelligent
Thinking
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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. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Women
Differences
Eye
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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 of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.
Edward T. Hall / Anthropologist
Time
People
Wall
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