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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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Dance Important Improvisation Join Learning Ourselves Responsible Step
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Continue Fluid Live Reality
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Eat Food Human
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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Empowerment Future Leadership Present
When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
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Death Parents Realization Return Time
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.
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Character Entertainment Experience Life Positive Repetition
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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Children Finding Togetherness World
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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Goodness Life Place Remain Willing
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Forget Human Natural Sacred Society
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Creativity Establishment Improvisation Way
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Capacity Commitment Democracy Essential
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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Conflict Desperate Element Improvisation Reflection
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Definition Problem Solution
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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Affirmation Education Existing Member Tradition
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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Demand Give Share

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