Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
The different sensations that entered the brain at the time of the trauma are not properly assembled into a story, a piece of autobiography.Bessel van der Kolk
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Social revolutions are never simple.
Yair Lapid -
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
Mackenzie Davis -
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
Jack Ma -
My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
Patricia Heaton -
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
Hari Kunzru
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.
Ed Gillespie -
You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
Laura Spencer -
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
Harrison Salisbury -
I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.
Anthony Zinni -
One lives but once in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.
Marcus Terentius Varro -
Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.
Ben Carson -
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.
Anthony Trollope -
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
Louis Pasteur -
I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice.
Katie Finneran -
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
Maureen Forrester
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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.
Daniel H. Pink -
I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.
John Eccles -
'Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,'
Arthur Ransome -
You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.
John Mulaney -
The different sensations that entered the brain at the time of the trauma are not properly assembled into a story, a piece of autobiography.
Bessel van der Kolk