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When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return ...
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Dwarves' tongues run on when speaking of their handiwork, they say.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Britain has enormous amount of talent, as we've seen from the BAFTAs. It's all here, and it has to be allowed to flourish.
— Andy Serkis
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
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
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Active wisdom
an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52] — Mary Catherine Bateson
an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52] — Mary Catherine Bateson
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Now I understand," said the last man.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Sharing is sometimes
more demanding than giving. — Mary Catherine Bateson
more demanding than giving. — Mary Catherine Bateson
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
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
— Mary Catherine Bateson