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Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
![The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/761/760550/760550.webp "The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199] Picture Quote #1")
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199] (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow (Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes)
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