"Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought……" — Gregory Bateson
"Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite sure what that would be. The person who was bullying him produced a photograph of his wife from his wallet and said, "There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is." Picasso looked at it and said, "She is rather small, isn't she? And flat?""
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46 Quotes by Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson has 46 quotes on this site.
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All experience is subjective.
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Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate…
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
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Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous.…
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Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
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The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people…
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Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of…
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There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can…
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More Bullying Quotes
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one of 518 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
— Richard Bach
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I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.
— Adele
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If…
— Harry Browne
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
— Edmund Burke
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
— George Burns
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
— Louisa May Alcott
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what…
— George Carlin
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Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
— Robert Carlyle
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It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to…
— Graydon Carter
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try…
— Johnny Cash
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