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Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1939

Topics

Goals Become Clearly Too Defined

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

You Go Want Ball Where Going

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Experience Early Piano Lessons Quite

Game creators aren't necessarily all sitting around twirling their nefarious-looking mustaches while consciously trying to figure out how to best misrepresent women as part of some grand conspiracy. Most probably just haven't given much thought to the underlying messages their games are sending.

Anita Sarkeesian

Women Best Game Thought Trying Out

As much as I'd love to give everybody a really cheap option, it's just simply not possible in certain sorts of extreme events... I guarantee that our strategy on surge pricing is the optimal way to get as many people home as possible.

Travis Kalanick

Love Home People Strategy Possible

I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure.

Food Simple Important Eat Pleasure

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

You Never Worthless Take Function

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

Good Myself Job Song Thought Drunk

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

Anxiety Die You Go Will Knowing

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Yourself Feel You Go Sometimes Hot

I've stopped questioning things and how things work.

Work Questioning Things How Stopped

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Depression Smart Patterns Your Uses

I've never been a social person.

Person Never Social Been

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