James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin
James A. "Jim" Baldwinwas an American football player, track athlete, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Rhode Island State College—now the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maine, Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina—now Duke University, Lehigh University, and Wake Forest University, compiling a career college football record of 41–32–14. Baldwin was also the head basketball coach at the same five schools, amassing a career college basketball...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 August 1924
CountryUnited States of America
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.
A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.