Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

We can hardly bear to look. The shadow may carry the best of the life we have not lived. Go into the basement, the attic, the refuse bin. Find gold there. Find an animal who has not been fed or watered. It is you!! This neglected, exiled animal, hungry for attention, is a part of your self.

Bessel van der Kolk

• Attention
• Animal
• Shadow

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Mission

• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Care

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Animal
  • Bear

• In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Years

• I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.

  

  Young Thug
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Close

• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• We want you to pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Want
  • You
  • Attention

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Eye
  • Makeup
  • Shadow

• In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Man
  • Attention

• That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Nice

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Animal

• When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Child
  • Animal
  • Circus

• Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Attention
  • Heaven

• Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Shadow

• If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Control

• Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I don't like to bring attention to myself. I don't like to make a scene.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Attention

• I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Attention

• When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!"

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat.

  

  Tony Verna
  • Feels
  • Innovation
  • Heat

• We can hardly bear to look. The shadow may carry the best of the life we have not lived. Go into the basement, the attic, the refuse bin. Find gold there. Find an animal who has not been fed or watered. It is you!! This neglected, exiled animal, hungry for attention, is a part of your self.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Shadow