Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Knowing what we feel is the first step to knowing why we feel that way. If we are aware of the constant changes in our inner and outer environment, we can mobilize to manage them. But we can’t do this unless our watchtower, the MPFC, learns to observe what is going on inside us.Bessel van der Kolk
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
Umberto Eco -
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
Callie Khouri -
I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
Padgett Powell -
If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
Eddie Redmayne -
Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
T. B. Joshua -
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
Patrick Leahy
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
Yitzhak Shamir -
It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
Kate Winslet -
You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid -
Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
Madeline Kahn
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
Kallam Anji Reddy -
'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
Faizon Love -
Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
Walt Handelsman -
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale -
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
Samuel de Champlain -
I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
Patricia Riggen
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And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.
Eli Wallach -
No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
B. F. Skinner -
The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
Bob Ney -
Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.
M. Stanton Evans -
I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.
Kaley Cuoco -
Knowing what we feel is the first step to knowing why we feel that way. If we are aware of the constant changes in our inner and outer environment, we can mobilize to manage them. But we can’t do this unless our watchtower, the MPFC, learns to observe what is going on inside us.
Bessel van der Kolk