“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.” PeopleShouldMeanDoeHelpingCultureLanguageLosesDominantOther CulturesDominant Culture Author:Edward T. Hall
“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.” PeopleMindPurposeLeftNumbersFocusExerciseConcernedFunctionTrainWesternEastBoundariesUnconsciousTunesLogicalPortionsLinearHemisphere Author:Edward T. Hall
“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
“Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensDoneCompanyTalentBuildingTheatreExpertsDamageLightingWardrobeTechnicians Author:Edward T. Hall
