The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.
I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.
He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.
Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.
Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character.
I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.
Just pass the work I assign along to somebody else and trust to luck. We call that delegation of responsibility.
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.
I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.
Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.
I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.
