"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving." — Mary Catherine Bateson

"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."

29 Quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which…
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic,…
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual…
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few…
As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you…
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or…
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple…

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Running a company is pretty demanding. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to… — Mortimer Adler
It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American… — John Boehner
Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest… — John Cleese
The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most… — Harlan Coben
The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his… — Carl von Clausewitz
Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an… — Sarah Schulman
It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own… — J. William Fulbright
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of… — Jacques Monod
The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and… — Julia Cameron
Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as… — Norm Sloan
A code of ethics cannot be developed overnight by edict or official pronouncement. It is developed by years of practice… — Silas L. Copeland

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