Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux and his colleagues have shown that the only way we can consciously access the emotional brain is through self-awareness, i.e. by activating the medial prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that notices what is going on inside us and thus allows us to feel what we’re feeling.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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Let's hope you feel better now.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.
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I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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I feel like God has blessed me so much already, and he keeps continuing to bless me.
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Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?
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Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.
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I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
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I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.
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The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux and his colleagues have shown that the only way we can consciously access the emotional brain is through self-awareness, i.e. by activating the medial prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that notices what is going on inside us and thus allows us to feel what we’re feeling.
