Quotes by Edward T. Hall

Edward T. Hall

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn’t completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Diversity

Littles

Men

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

Break Out

Culture

Zoos

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Lying

Paper

Pieces

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Bureaucracy

Memories

Mind

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

Jobs

Real

Years

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

Culture

Evolve

Made

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

Sacred

Simple

Space

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

Interesting

Sometimes

Study

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

Differences

Eye

Women

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.

Art

Doe

Men

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Art

Break Out

Bureaucracy

Communication

Culture

Desire

Differences

Diversity

Doe

Essence

Evolve

Exercise

Eye

Important

Information

Interest In Life

Interesting

Jobs

Learning

Light

Littles

Lives Of Others

Long

Lying

Made

Memories

Men

Mind

Numbers

Paper

People

Pieces

Real

Sacred

Shining

Simple

Sometimes

Space

Strong

Study

Teaching

Thinking

Two

Vitality

Whole

Whole World

Women

World

Years

Zoos

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Quotes by Edward T. Hall

Edward T. Hall

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn’t completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

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

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

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

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

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

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.

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