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Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Aging category:
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Change category:
We have to broaden our understanding of change, look for the new metaphors. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Culture category:
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others? (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Education category:
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Fear category:
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Fire category:
- Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom...
Five moves, they say, equal a fire. But those who haven't moved may begin to need a fire. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Future category:
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Generosity category:
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Goals category:
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Improvisation category:
- Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way...
The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved, but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Life category:
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Politics category:
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Reality category:
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Religion category:
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Thinking category:
Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Wonder category:
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Mary Catherine Bateson - From the Words category:
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
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