We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONCaring 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.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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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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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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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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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.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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