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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
You lose the speed before the stamina.
-
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.
-
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
-
I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.
-
People in Toronto love to watch fights.
-
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
-
I am opposed to Solidarity because I believe that it is an anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state.
-
The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
-
My job is to do. My job is to make women beautiful. What do I have to say?
-
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.
-
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
-
Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.
-
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
-
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
-
The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president!
-
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
-
Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
-
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
-
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.
