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“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, The Silent Language

“Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.”
― Edward T. Hall

“اليوم، حيث جميعنا غارق في معلومات من عدة مصادر، من السهل أن تفهم لماذا يشعر الناس أنهم يفقدون الصلة حتى في مجال تخصصهم. بالرغم من وجود التلفاز، أو ربما بسببه، يشعر الناس بفقدان الصلة بالعالم أجمع. ويزيد فرط المعلومات من الحاجة لأطر منظمة لجعل كتلة المعلومات التي تتغير بسرعة كبيرة متكامل.”
― ادوارد تي هول

“Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of gnawing emptiness, longing, frustration, and displaced anger overwhelms people when this occurs. Whether the anger is turned inward on the self, or outward towards others, dreadful destruction results.”
― Edward T. Hall

“إن اللغة هي أكثر من مجرد وسيلة للتعبير عن التفكير. إنها في الحقيقة عامل رئيس في تشكيل التفكير.”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom , first, last and always a prisoner of his biological organism. No matter how hard he tries, it is impossible for him to the best himself of his own culture, where it has penetrated to the roots of his nervous system and determines how he perceives the world.”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“The study of man is the study of his extensions.”
― Edward T. Hall, Beyond Culture

“الخبرة المكانية ليست بصرية فقط، ولكنها متعددة الحواس”
― ادوارد تي هول

“التصميم من أجل الناس يحتل مرتبة متدنية على سلم أولوياتنا!”
― ادوارد تي هول

“إن الناس الذين نشأوا في ثقافات مختلفة يعيشون في عوالم حسيّة مختلفة.”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“توجد حاجة ماسّة لمراجعة وتوسيع نظرتنا عن الوضع البشري، حاجة لأن نكون أكثر شمولية وأكثر واقعية، ليس فقط نحو الآخرين ولكن نحو أنفسنا كذلك. إنه أمر أساسي أن نتعلم أن نفسّر الاتصالات الصامتة بالسهولة نفسها التي نفسر بها تلك المطبوعة والمنطوقة. ولا يمكننا الوصول إلى الآخرين إلا بقيامنا بهذا، داخل وخارج حدودنا الوطنية، وهو مايتطلَّب منا أن نقوم به بشكل متزايد.”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“إن فهم البعد الثقافي على أنه أكثر الاتصالات تعقيداً على جميع المستويات, سيكون غير ضروري فعلياً لو لم يكن ذلك لأمرين: انشغالنا المتزايد بالشعوب في كل أجزاء العالم, وتمازج الثقافات الخاصة في بلدنا حيث يتدفق أشخاص من مناطق ريفية وبلدان أجنبية إلى داخل مدننا بأعداد كبيرة.”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“الوطن ليس مجرد شقة أو منزل ولكن منطقة محلية يتم ممارسة بعض أهم مظاهر الحياة فيها”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“في السنوات الأخيرة فقط, أصبحت المعاني الضمنية لفكرة (ورف) واضحة وبالنسبة لقلة من الناس فقط. وبسبب صعوبة استيعابها فقد أصبحت مخيفة إلى حد ما عندما يتم التفكير بها بتمعن. فهي تنفذ إلى المبدأ الأساسي لـ"الإرادة الحرة", لأنها توضِّح أن جميع البشر هم أسرى اللغة التي يتكلمونها طالما يأخذون لغتهم كأمر مسلَِم به.”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“أن الإنسان سكن عدة عوالم إدراكية حسية مختلفة وأن الفن يشكِّل واحداً من عدة مصادر غنية للبيانات حول إدراك الإنسان.
إن الفنان نفسه وعمله ودراسة الفن في سياق عدة ثقافات جميعها توفر معلومات قيّمة ليس فقط للمحتوى ولكن حتى أكثر أهمية لبنية عوالم الإنسان الإدراكية الحسية المختلفة.”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“Everything man is and does is modified by learning and is therefore malleable. But once learned, these behavior patterns, these habitual responses, these ways of interacting gradually sink below the surface of the mind and, like the admiral of a submerged submarine fleet, control from the depths. The hidden controls are usually experienced as though they were innate simply because they are not only ubiquitous but habitual as well.”
― Edward T. Hall, Beyond Culture

“Most of culture lies hidden and is outside
voluntary control, making up the warp and weft of human existence. Even when small fragments of culture are elevated to awareness, they are difficult to change, not only because they are so personally experienced but because people cannot
act or interact at all in any meaningful way except through the medium of culture.”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“To increase density in a rat population and maintain healthy specimens, put them in boxes so they can't see each other, clean their cages, and give them enough to eat. You can pile the boxes up as many stories as you wish. Unfortunately, caged animals become stupid, which is a very heavy price to pay for a super filing system!”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“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, Beyond Culture

“It is characteristic of all extension systems to be treated as distinct and separate from the user and to take on an identity of their own. Religions, philosophies, literature, and art illustrate this. After a time, the extended system accretes to itself a past and a history as well as a body of knowledge and skills that can be learned. Such systems can be studied and appreciated as entities in themselves.”
― Edward T. Hall, Beyond Culture

“The exciting thing about mathematics and science and music and literature is what they can tell us about the workings of the human mind. For these disciplines are literally models (extensions) of at least certain parts of the mind. Just as the knife cuts but does not chew, while the lens does only a portion of what the eye can do, extensions are reductionist in their capability. No matter how hard it tries, the human race can never fully replace what was left out of extensions in the first place. Also, it is just as important to know what is left out of a given extension system as it is to know what the system will do. Yet the extension-omissions side is frequently overlooked.”
― Edward T. Hall

“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, The Silent Language

“The spoken language is a symbolization of something that happened, could have happened, or is in the process of happening, while the written language is a symbolization of the spoken language. James Joyce, for example, dedicated his life to trying to close the gap between the two systems. In Finnegans Wake, Joyce portrays in writing the workings of the verbal parts of the brain.”
― Edward T. Hall, Beyond Culture