Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

There is something very empowering about having the experience of changing your brain’s activity with your mind.

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• No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Beautiful
  • Old
  • River

• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Father
  • City

• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Future

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Gay

• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • May
  • Speak
  • Communication

• I put up some great numbers.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Numbers

• As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Choices
  • Books
  • Consumers

• You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Internet

• I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Know
  • Lord

• The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Brain
  • Survival

• I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Forever

• In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that's far more important to us, which is time - minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you're talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Time
  • Important
  • Reality

• I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Reality

• Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

  

  John Hodgman
  • Interesting
  • Fake

• I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

  

  Jemima Kirke
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Husband

• There is something very empowering about having the experience of changing your brain’s activity with your mind.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Changing
  • Activity