Edward T. Hall Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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

  Communication, Essence, Important

• Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

  Edward T. Hall

  Jobs, Real, Years

  "The Silent Language". Book by Edward T. Hall, 1959.

• 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.

  Edward T. Hall

  Mean, Other Cultures, People

• 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

  Details Of Life, Culture, Attention

• Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

  Edward T. Hall

  Culture, Sitting, Characteristics

• Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

  Edward T. Hall

  Zoos, Culture, Break Out

• 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

  Long, Culture, Lives Of Others

• ... 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

  Voice, Culture, Movement

• Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

  Edward T. Hall

  Culture, Made, Evolve

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