Mary Bateson Quotes
11 Mary 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."
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"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."
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"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."
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"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."
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"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."
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"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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"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."
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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."
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"Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food."
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"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."
American Scientist Quotes
Metaphor Quotes
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"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."
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