Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONSharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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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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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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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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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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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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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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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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