Edward T. Hall Quotes

Men are visual creatures.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

In real life, that's how we're moving around. We look at things while we're walking and moving and turning around. We stare at objects in the world.

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

I think a lot of people fail to work on their sight, even though it's probably one of the most important sides to tennis. It's also about reactions and concentration and focus, and I think it's all very closely related.

I'm good at shapes. If I'm not close, even if it's big, I can't read it.

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn't know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that's very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly.

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail is not a virtue, just a fact of my person. It happens seemingly involuntarily and strikes me as neither good nor bad.