Quotes of A. Bartlett Giamatti - somelinesforyou

“ Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things — and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ No one man is superior to the game. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ No one man is superior to the game. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ No one man is superior to the game. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“ It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table. ”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti
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