Quotes of Mary Catherine Bateson

“ 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, improsing certain situations, that allows us to grow. ”

- Mary Catherine Bateson

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Travel

“ Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. ”

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Fear

“ 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. ”

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Bend

“ 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. ”

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Brew

“ The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ”

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Commitment

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Complain

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Crooked

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Curiosity

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Crab

“ The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. ”

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Changed

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Christian

“ The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ”

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Changing

“ 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. ”

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Diversity

“ Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ”

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Definite

“ The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ”

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Disappear

“ Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ”

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Destination

“ The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ”

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Extend

“ The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. ”

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Ending

“ 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. ”

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Ending

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Flowing

“ The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ”

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Family

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Grown

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Grass

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Good

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Instantly

“ Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ”

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Intent

“ The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ”

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Mix

“ 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. ”

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Mixture

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Mixture

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Metaphor

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“ 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, improsing certain situations, that allows us to grow. ”

“ Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ”

“ The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ”

“ Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ”

“ The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ”

“ The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. ”

“ Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ”

“ The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ”