Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

We now know that more than half the people who seek psychiatric care have been assaulted, abandoned, neglected, or even raped as children, or have witnessed violence in their families.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Psychiatric Care

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• There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • World
  • Girl

• Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Me
  • Always
  • Mad

• Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • City
  • Car
  • Happen

• I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Trust
  • Like
  • Doctors

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • You
  • Basketball

• I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Think
  • Everything
  • Choose

• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Up
  • Business
  • Job

• I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Inspiration
  • Actor

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Dream

• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Black
  • Everything
  • Ships

• If you look at people who have an iPhone or Android and are under 40 and are dissatisfied with their bank, it's actually quite a large market.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Bank
  • iPhone

• You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Die
  • Start

• I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Single
  • Dating
  • Rather

• I love the smell of a man's skin.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Man
  • Smell

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• I read myths and fairy tales and books about them a great deal now, but I very seldom read novels. I find modern novels bore me. I can read Tolstoy and the Russians, but mostly I read comparative mythology and comparative religion. I need matter to carry with me.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Great

• If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Believe

• Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!

  

  Gayle King
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Lost

• I stay at home a lot by choice but go out a lot due to work. As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Good
  • Work
  • Home

• Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, 'Have a nice day' or even have one. To be honest, I've never heard a Jew say that. We're just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries.

  

  Gene Saks
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Optimistic

• We now know that more than half the people who seek psychiatric care have been assaulted, abandoned, neglected, or even raped as children, or have witnessed violence in their families.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Violence
  • Psychiatric Care