Edward T Hall Quotes

#1. I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

Edward T. Hall

#2. A light shines in the darkness but the darkness does not understand it." - John 1:5 "No man is a complete mystery but to himself" - Proust

Mark Edward Hall

#3. 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.

Edward T. Hall

#4. The study of man is the study of his extensions.

Edward T. Hall

#5. Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.

Edward Humes

#6. I hate getting bored.

Edward Hall

#7. 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.

Edward Hall

#8. Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

Edward T. Hall

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

Edward T. Hall

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

Edward T. Hall

#11. We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Edward Hall

#12. Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Edward T. Hall

#13. Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone.

Edward Hall

#14. The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Edward T. Hall

#15. 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

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

Edward T. Hall

#17. From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man's basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill afford cultural illiteracy.

Edward T. Hall

#18. 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

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

Edward T. Hall

#20. Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

Edward Hall

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

Edward Hall

#24. I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

Edward Hall

#25. While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

Edward Hall

#26. For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking ... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.

Edward T. Hall

#27. Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

Edward T. Hall

#28. It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Edward Carpenter

#29. People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

Edward Hall

#30. Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Edward Hall

#31. The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

Edward T. Hall

#32. It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

Edward Hall

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

Edward T. Hall

#34. 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.

Edward T. Hall

#35. 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.

Edward T. Hall

#36. You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

George Edward Woodberry

#37. 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

#38. Age affects how people experience time.

Edward T. Hall

#39. I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

Edward Hall

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

Edward T. Hall

#41. We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

Edward Hall

#42. It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.

Edward T. Hall

#43. Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

Edward T. Hall

#44. I'd love to do some new plays.

Edward Hall

#45. The information is in the people, not in your head.

Edward T. Hall

#46. It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other.

Edward Humes