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 More Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti More Quotes From 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 softball summer motivational Baseball is about homecoming. 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Bartlett Giamatti mindfulness teaching art All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were. A. Bartlett Giamatti baseball christian dream 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 lust simple mind [Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. A. 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Bartlett Giamatti success beautiful sports To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another. A. Bartlett Giamatti management league yale Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. A. Bartlett Giamatti coercion people ideas Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices. A. Bartlett Giamatti teaching teacher art 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. 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