"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is……" — Mary Catherine Bateson

"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had… — Tyra Banks
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are… — Andrew Bernstein
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely… — Annie Besant
Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. — Kathryn Bigelow
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of… — Theodore Bikel
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Omar N. Bradley
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to… — Berkeley Breathed
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of -… — Warren Buffett
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is… — Frederick Buechner

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