Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
-
Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
-
I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
-
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
-
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
-
The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
-
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
-
It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
-
It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
-
Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
-
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
-
I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
-
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
-
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
-
Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
-
As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
-
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
-
In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.
-
Nobody has a guaranteed position in computer technologies business. We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast and the structure of the business as it broadens out is going to be so different.
-
Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!
-
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
-
As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.
