Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.
I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I'll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strength...
Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple expl...
Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to p...
Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.
The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you can...
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.
Men were notorious for their acts of disloyalty.
Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.
I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.
I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
