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

Please Wait....
Translating....

There Are Many Who

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.

Topic

Simple

Lust

Mind

More From A. Bartlett Giamatti

If A Family Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Biology, A City Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Will Amd Imagination? Through Mental Choices Making Artifice, Not Through Physical Reproduction.

Cities

Expression

Imagination

Some Of My Academic Friends Think Ive Fallen From A Very Special Grace.

Thinking

Grace

Special

Americans Have Been Remarkably Devoted To The Capacity For Belief, To Idealism. That's Why We Get Into Trouble All The Time. We're Always Viewed As Naive.

Belief

Trouble

Capacity

To Go From Yale To The National League Is Simply To Go From One Form Of Management To Another.

Yale

League

Management

This Is Not The First Time In My Life Where You Know Going Into A Job That You're Going To Hear In Stereo What Was Wrong With What You Did.

Jobs

Firsts

First Time

The Gods Have Fled, I Know. My Sense Is The Gods Have Always Been Essentially Absent. I Do Not Believe Human Beings Have Played Games Or Sports From The Beginning Merely To Summon Or To Please Or To Appease The Gods. If Anthropologists And Historians Believe That, It Is Because They Believe Whatever They Have Been Able To Recover About What Humankind Told The Gods Humankind Was Doing. I Believe We Have Played Games, And Watched Games, To Imitate The Gods, To Become Godlike In Our Worship Of Eachother And, Through Those Moments Of Transmutation, To Know For An Instant What The Gods Know.

Sports

Believe

Games

People Will Say I'm An Idealist. I Hope So.

People

Idealist

I'm The World's Expert On Sterotypes Held By Academics About Athletes And Held By Athletes About Academics. To Me, Both Of Them Are Caricatures.

Athlete

Experts

World

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.

Baseball

Ghouls

People

For Me, Baseball Is The Most Nourishing Game Outside Of Literature. They Both Are Re-tellings Of Human Experience.

Baseball

Games

Literature

A Liberal Education Is At The Heart Of A Civil Society, And At The Heart Of A Liberal Education Is The Act Of Teaching.

Education

Hippie

Teaching

Baseball Has Undergone And Absorbed A Whole Set Of Dislocations.

Baseball

Whole

Dislocation

Winning Has A Joy And Discrete Purity To It That Cannot Be Replaced By Anything Else. Winning Is Important To Any Man's Or Woman's Sense Of Satisfaction And Well-being. Winning Is Not Everything; But It Is Something Powerful, Indeed Beautiful, In Itself, Something As Necessary To The Strong Spirit As Striving Is Necessary To The Healthy Character.

Success

Beautiful

Sports

[baseball] Breaks Your Heart. It Is Designed To Break Your Heart.

Baseball

Heart

Green Fields

Baseball Has The Largest Library Of Law And Love And Custom And Ritual, And Therefore, In A Nation That Fundamentally Believes It Is A Nation Under Law, Well, Baseball Is America's Most Privileged Version Of The Level Field.

Baseball

Believe

America

We Have An Obligation To Spread Amateur Baseball Both At Home And Abroad. Building Up The Game At All Levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, The Colleges - Is In Our Own Self-interest. That's Where The Pool Of Talent Is - And Also Of Fans.

Baseball

Home

College

All I Ever Wanted To Be President Of Was The American League.

League

President

Wanted

Baseball Is About Homecoming. It Is A Journey By Theft And Strength, Guile And Speed, Out Around First To The Far Island Of Second, Where Foes Lurk In The Reefs And The Green Sea Suddenly Grows Deeper, Then To Turn Sharply, Skimming The Shallows, Making For A Shore That Will Show A Friendly Face, A Color, A Familiar Language And, At Third, To Proceed, No Longer By Paths Indirect But Straight, To Home.

Baseball

Home

Journey

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.

Simple

Lust

Mind

Winning Has A Joy And Discrete Purity To It That Cannot Be Replaced By Anything Else.

Winning

Joy

Purity

On Matters Of Race, On Matters Of Decency, Baseball Should Lead The Way.

Baseball

Race

Common Decency

The People Of America Care About Baseball, Not About Your Squalid Little Squabbles. Reassume Your Dignity And Remember That You (players During The 1981 Strike) Are The Temporary Custodians Of An Enduring Public Trust.

Baseball

Player

America

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.

Inspirational

Teacher

Art

I Think That The Young People Today Feel A Tremendous Sense Of Responsibility To Their Brothers And Sisters Because Of The Sacrifices That Most Families Make To Send Their Children To College.

Brother

Children

Responsibility

Teaching Is An Instinctual Art, Mindful Of Potential, Craving Of Realizations, A Pausing, Seamless Process.

Art

Teaching

Mindfulness

I'm Not Going To Sit Here Now And Say 'do This,' Or 'do That.' But You Must - Must - Expunge Any Vestige Of Racism.

Racism

A Tremendous Social Responsibility Comes With Being A Successful Public Performer.

Responsibility

Successful

Social

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.

Time

Jobs

Military

My Goal Has Been To Encourage Jointness, To Push People To Think Of Affiliations Rather Than To Operate As Solo Entrepreneurs.

Thinking

People

Goal

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.

Motivational

Summer

Softball

Major Sports Are Major Parts Of Society. It's Not Anomalous To Have People Who Love Sports Come From Other Parts Of That Society.

Sports

People

Majors

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.

Wisdom

Power

Past

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.

Tables

Students

Eating

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.

Ideas

People

Coercion

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.

Teacher

Art

Teaching

The Professionals Must Set A Good Example.

Example

Good Examples

A Convention Is A Social Pattern We Have Chosen To Prefer Over Whatever The Raw World Simply Proffers. It Is A Sign Of The Operation Of The Mind, Drawing The Assent Of A Sufficient Number Of Other Minds So That The Agreement Will Be Widely Operative. A Convention Is Not A Custom; A Custom Is A Habit In Which A Sufficient Number Acquiesce. A Custom Can Appear As A Convention, But It Is Really A Lesser Act, The Result Of Passive Acceptance Rather Than Of The Imposition Of Design. It Is The Difference Between Learning To Live By The Annual Flooding Of The River Or By A Calendar.

Acceptance

Agreement

Rivers

As I Grew Up, I Knew That As A Building It Was On The Level Of Mount Olympus, The Pyramid Of Giza, The Nation's Capital, The Czar's Winter Palace, And The Louvre - Except, Of Course, That It Was Better Than All Of Those Inconsequential Places.

Winter

Pyramids

Olympus

There's Nothing Bad That Accrues From Baseball.

Baseball

No One Man Is Superior To The Game.

Teamwork

Men

Games

You Count On It, You Rely On It To Buffer The Passage Of Time, To Keep The Memory Of Sunshine And High Skies Alive, And Then, Just When The Days Are All Twilight, When You Need It Most, It Stops.

Baseball

Memories

Twilight

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.

Baseball

Sorry

Player

Talking To Yogi Berra About Baseball Is Like Talking To Homer About The Gods.

Baseball

Talking

Yogi

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.

Christian

Dream

Baseball

The University Is Our Culture's Assertion That What Is Made By The Mind Has Value And Can Convey Values.

Mind

Culture

Made

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.

2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.

2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.

2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.

3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.

3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.

4. Proper Usage of Quotes

4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.

4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.

4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

5. Common Mistakes to Avoid

5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.

5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.

5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.

6. Quotes in Different Contexts

6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.

6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.

6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.

7. Punctuation and Formatting

Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:

Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.

Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.

Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.

8. Ethical Considerations

Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes

Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.

Conclusion

Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.

Trending Author