Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONThe family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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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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Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
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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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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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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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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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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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON