“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.” PeopleWayFeelsWellsTogetherTimeEffortSpecialWallActivityAchievementMessagesPrioritiesInvisibleRhythmPrimariesJudgedMechanismIsolatedTiedThreadFeedbackRevealingCompetenceMeasuringOrganizerSynthesizersCategorizingInvisible Threads Author: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 the right response than to send the right message.” ImportantCultureCommunicationMessagesCrossesEssenceResponseReleaseFeedbackAnthropologySending A Message Author:Edward T. Hall
