A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONThe family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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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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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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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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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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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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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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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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