Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

• No somos lo que sabemos, sino lo que estamos dispuestos a aprender.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Graduation, Educational, Memorable

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2004). “Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery”

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• La especie humana piensa en metáforas y aprende a través de historias.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Inspiración, Inspirar, Pensar

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• As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Life, Art, Morning

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2004). “Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery”

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• 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

  Color, Vision, Culture

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• 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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  Believe, Diversity, Understanding

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• Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Sacred, Natural, Conventions

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.57, Grove Press

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• Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Perspective, Retrospect, Continuity

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.223, Grove Press

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• 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.

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  Memories, Thinking, Games

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• In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in time. Unless teachers can hold up a model of lifelong learning and adaptation, graduates are likely to find themselves trapped into obsolescence as the world changes around them. 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

  Life, Teacher, Moving

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.14, Grove Press

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• Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.

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  Important, Age, Way

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

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  Profesor, Enseñanza, Lecciones

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• ... 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

  Love, Age, Three

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• La fluidez y la discontinuidad son fundamentales para la realidad en la que vivimos.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Reality, Fluidity, Discontinuity

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.13, Grove Press

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• Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Problem, Defined, Depends

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• Sharing is sometimes
  more demanding than giving.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Peace, Memorable, Knowledge

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2007). “Composing a Life”, p.111, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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

  Past, Parent, Realization

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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

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  Change, Death, Giving

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1984). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, William Morrow & Company

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• The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

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  Past, Empowering, Pathways

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• Hay pocas cosas tan tóxicas como una mala metáfora. No se puede pensar sin metáforas.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Thinking, Toxic, Metaphor

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• ...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Reflection, Trying, Elements

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.3, Grove Press

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• La cuestión fundamental sobre el arrepentimiento es si la experiencia condujo al crecimiento y a nuevos aprendizajes. Algunas personas parecen seguir cometiendo los mismos errores, mientras que otras al menos cometen otros nuevos. El arrepentimiento y el remordimiento pueden ser paralizantes o inspiradores. [p. 199]

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Regret, Mistake, People

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• Unos objetivos demasiado claros pueden convertirse en anteojeras.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Goal, Blinkers, Goals And Objectives

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.6, Grove Press

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• Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Peace, History, Tradition

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.71, Grove Press

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• A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; that caring for the deepest needs of persons and caring for our threatened planet are not in conflict.

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  Caring, Animal, Self

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• Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Creativity, Way, Lasts

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.4, Grove Press

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