We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. — Mary Catherine Bateson Education Copy Share Image
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. — Mary Catherine Bateson Fear Copy Share Image
“Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub.” — Mary Catherine Bateson Self care Copy Share Image
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. — Mary Catherine Bateson Discontinuity Copy Share Image
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those… — Mary Catherine Bateson Openness Copy Share Image
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. — Mary Catherine Bateson Empowering Copy Share Image
“... active wisdom --an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]” — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training. — Mary Catherine Bateson Care Copy Share Image
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of… — Mary Catherine Bateson Ability Copy Share Image
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity. — Mary Catherine Bateson Affirmation Copy Share Image
“An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds… — Mary Catherine Bateson Anthropology Copy Share Image
“So this little boy was--I became her confidant a little too early, I think. It didn't seem to warp me exactly, but… — Mary Catherine Bateson Confidant Copy Share Image
“Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people… — Mary Catherine Bateson Age Copy Share Image
We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship.… — Mary Catherine Bateson Benevolence Copy Share Image
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today… — Mary Catherine Bateson Adaptation Copy Share Image
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a… — Mary Catherine Bateson Approach Copy Share Image
Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge… — Mary Catherine Bateson American society Copy Share Image
Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual… — Mary Catherine Bateson Adrenaline Copy Share Image
Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders.… — Mary Catherine Bateson Believer Copy Share Image
A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even… — Mary Catherine Bateson Affirmation Copy Share Image
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. — Mary Catherine Bateson Death Copy Share Image
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity. — Mary Catherine Bateson Creativity Copy Share Image
As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating… — Mary Catherine Bateson Art Copy Share Image
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as… — Mary Catherine Bateson Caring Copy Share Image
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the… — Mary Catherine Bateson Adults Copy Share Image
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
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