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.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONJazz 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.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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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 family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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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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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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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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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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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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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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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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