“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 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.” ThinkingFeelsYearsLongTermLong TimeSouthRealisticAsian Author:Edward T. Hall