Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Senses a threat—a potential collision with an oncoming vehicle, a person on the street who looks threatening—it sends an instant message down to the hypothalamus and the brain stem, recruiting the stress-hormone system and the autonomic nervous system (ANS).
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Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
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Better to constantly check in than ride proud on your high horse.
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A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.
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I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely.
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With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.
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We only have our nervous system to paint.
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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Research from these new disciplines has revealed that trauma produces actual physiological changes, including a recalibration of the brain’s alarm system, an increase in stress hormone activity, and alterations in the system that filters relevant information from irrelevant. We now know that trauma compromises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feeling of being alive. These changes explain why traumatized individuals become hypervigilant to threat at the expense of spontaneously engaging in their day-to-day lives. They also help us understand why traumatized people so often keep repeating the same problems and have such trouble learning from experience. We now know that their behaviors are not the result of moral failings or signs of lack of willpower or bad character—they are caused by actual changes in the brain.
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Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!
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I'm sick of losing, being honest. I don't look at this as going to Mexico; I look at this is we've got to win a game. I don't care if we have to go to the other side of Africa, we've got to win this game.
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Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.
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Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions.Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.
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In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.
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All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey.
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Senses a threat—a potential collision with an oncoming vehicle, a person on the street who looks threatening—it sends an instant message down to the hypothalamus and the brain stem, recruiting the stress-hormone system and the autonomic nervous system (ANS).
