People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.
The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.
We have the choice to choose how we’re going to educate our emotions.
I want to make big films. That’s always been my ambition.
We don’t have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences.
Our emotions tell us what to value. They’re like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don’t go that way.
I learned I’m not a science writer. I’m not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe “So What?”
Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won’t change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.
I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people’s lives, Facebook and such doesn’t replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.
A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets,. It may be the only kind of victory we’re achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.
If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You’re brain is working on the problem anyway.
Fundamentalism is still on the march.
I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they’re attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they’re just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.
I don’t know if I’m sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women’s bracket.
If you grow up in a home where actions don’t lead to predictable consequences, you don’t develop strategies to control your impulses.
I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.
It’s just a lot safer to be an incumbent. So I think they have used the campaign finance reforms. They have passed laws that will help themselves stay in office. And I think that’s one of the flaws that we do have in the system.
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.
When you’re running for president, you’re a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don’t think you’re going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they’re not going to vote for you even if they agree with you.
When you’re running for president you have to take some risks and you’ve got to show people something fresh and you’ve got to stay interesting.