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.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONWhat would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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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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 critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.
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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 capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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