“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
“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.” IfsMenShouldFirstsDoeArtFactsUsedLanguageMessagesArt IsVisuals Author:Edward T. Hall
