Quote by Nora Bateson Download Open image ““Short-term reward, long-term damage: greed over curiosity.”” — Nora Bateson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Curiosity comes out of a sense of safety; rigidity out of being vigilant to threats.” — Sue Johnson Copy Share Image
“I understand what motivates them. Greed is such a universal thing, especially when combined with laziness.” — Uvi Poznansky Copy Share Image
“Most people overestimate risk, failure, and danger and underestimate the value of being curious.” — Todd Kashdan Copy Share Image
“Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“When curiosity is an end in itself—a perspective, a viewpoint, a way of life—then it fuels an easy, egoless, playful relationship between ourselves and… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“The complex system that is the body is a field of ways of knowing, all of which work together ecologically to provide the necessary… — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the responsibility for the world the child grows to understand lies in the collective impressions that the village provides.” — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“The prescribed mode of thinking that is generated by our educational systems is not conducive to the sort of thinking that new generations should… — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“Mutual learning happens in the entropy; we need the confusion to release the new.” — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“Can the potential isolation of living on an island of our own frame of reference be banished by simple concurrences that become the currency… — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“Finding where exactly the outside world ends and I begin—is not so easy.” — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“Treating symptoms, teaching to the test, gathering statistics… all of these forms of engagement have something in common… blindness to the complexity of the… — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“Life is not divisible into the departments of a university, nor is our understanding of life greatly increased by standard research practices, which tend… — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“To lock down the delicate filigree of life in explanation is to lose it, but not to see it is disastrous.” — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“Good questions do not have answers at all, let alone right or wrong ones.” — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most… — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“But ask anyone, such is the nature of relationship. We carry each other’s pain. We learn together, or we do not learn.” — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
