The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
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When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON