Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

That morning I realized I would probably spend the rest of my professional life trying to unravel the mysteries of trauma. How do horrific experiences cause people to become hopelessly stuck in the past? What happens in people’s minds and brains that keeps them frozen, trapped in a place they desperately wish to escape?

Bessel van der Kolk

• Experiences
• Escape
• Frozen
• Trauma
• Professional Life

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• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Game
  • Company
  • Escape

• New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • You
  • Experiences

• I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Frozen
  • Musically

• When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Escape

• I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Living
  • More
  • Experiences

• I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Characters
  • Experiences
  • Pattern

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

  

  Bob Taft
  • Time
  • Frozen

• You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Experiences

• Being cold is not debilitating. We learned that from the Eskimos. They could be cold, and they could function. And you could function better when you're cold than when you're hot. I mean, hot, you become overheated, and, you know, you lose energy. If you're cold, you could function being cold. Now, frozen is different.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Different
  • Energy
  • Cold

• My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.

  

  Carol Alt
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• On days I'm not working, I don't wear a ton of other makeup, but if I have to look like I care, I'll use this By Terry Ombre Blackstar eye shadow stick in Frozen Quartz and Eyeko mascara.

  

  Keala Settle
  • Makeup
  • Shadow
  • Frozen

• My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Experiences

• In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

  

  Jean-Claude Duvalier
  • World
  • Frozen

• I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Audience

• I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Escape
  • Episodes
  • Mayberry

• Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.

  

  Amelia Gray
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Escape

• Regina Spektor is great. I can't wait to see what more she's capable of.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Great
  • Regina Spektor

• Everybody's moving around a little slow. We've got to come out with a better attitude. It's hard to come back every game. We've got to come out with a sense of urgency right off the get-go.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Game
  • Attitude
  • Urgency

• That morning I realized I would probably spend the rest of my professional life trying to unravel the mysteries of trauma. How do horrific experiences cause people to become hopelessly stuck in the past? What happens in people’s minds and brains that keeps them frozen, trapped in a place they desperately wish to escape?

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experiences
  • Escape
  • Frozen