The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONGoals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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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 past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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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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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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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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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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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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