Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. – Gregory Bateson
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. – Gregory Bateson
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. – Gregory Bateson
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson
Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless Id gotten a piano scholarship. And now Im so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, youre flexing a different muscle, but its beautiful because it is music. – Jamie Foxx