Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

As my colleague Bruce Perry explains it, the brain is formed in a “use-dependent manner.

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• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Paris
  • Cinema

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Book
  • Happiness

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Knowledge
  • Religious
  • Analyze

• We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Just
  • Consequences

• The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Truth
  • Justice

• Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Men
  • War

• Being Latina, I'm super close with my family. I love them, and I love spending time with them. I love being at my grandma's house and eating her food.

  

  Emeraude Toubia
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Important
  • Lost

• I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Style

• A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • World
  • Health
  • Environment

• You just put your head down and do the work.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Work

• I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

  

  Kristy McNichol

• Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

  

  Curt Siodmak
  • Good
  • Country
  • War

• Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

  

  David Walton
  • People
  • Work
  • Waiting

• I am not a man in decent shape.

  

  David Walton

• Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

  

  Ivo Andric
  • Song
  • Manner
  • Forgetfulness

• The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Black
  • Scared

• Artificial intelligence is here and being rapidly commercialized, with new applications being created not just for manufacturing but also for energy, healthcare, and oil and gas. This will change how we all do business.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Health care

• He's got tons of experience, and he's a very good holder. We felt like it was somebody we need to look at.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Game

• Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • Help
  • Education

• As my colleague Bruce Perry explains it, the brain is formed in a “use-dependent manner.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
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