Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

In contrast, EMDR, as well as the treatments discussed in subsequent chapters—internal family systems, yoga, neurofeedback, psychomotor therapy, and theater—focus not only on regulating the intense memories activated by trauma but also on restoring a sense of agency, engagement, and commitment through ownership of body and mind.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Thought
  • Flying
  • Now

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Faith
  • Kind
  • Speculation

• When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Mountain
  • Reputation

• I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Running

• A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Bad
  • Film
  • Movies

• As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Culture
  • Language
  • Learn

• 'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Help

• The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Time

• What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Great

• The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

  

  Ken Adam
  • Imagination

• The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Expectation

• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Breathe

• As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Up
  • American
  • Thanksgiving

• A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

  

  Abraham Isaac Kook
  • Thing
  • Little
  • Remnant

• By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • Time
  • Different

• The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other, and then I can just go home, and they don't know.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Time
  • Great
  • Home

• Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Military

• In contrast, EMDR, as well as the treatments discussed in subsequent chapters—internal family systems, yoga, neurofeedback, psychomotor therapy, and theater—focus not only on regulating the intense memories activated by trauma but also on restoring a sense of agency, engagement, and commitment through ownership of body and mind.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Memories
  • Yoga
  • Trauma