Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Children whose parents are reliable sources of comfort and strength have a lifetime advantage—a kind of buffer against the worst that fate can hand them.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.
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We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors makes certain foods taste better, affects the way we care for children, influences what colors we find vibrant, and contributes to our love of socializing, among other examples.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
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I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.
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People in Toronto love to watch fights.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
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I am opposed to Solidarity because I believe that it is an anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state.
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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
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My job is to do. My job is to make women beautiful. What do I have to say?
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A lot of these reality-TV shows people go on, they come off, and nothing happens. You never hear from them again. Fifteen seconds of fame is not the name of the game. No matter how big you break, or how many people you break in front of, you still have to slowly build a fan base to have anything loyal and lasting from people.
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.
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There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.
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We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.
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Children whose parents are reliable sources of comfort and strength have a lifetime advantage—a kind of buffer against the worst that fate can hand them.
