Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Porges coined the word “neuroception” to describe the capacity to evaluate relative danger and safety in one’s environment.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • Dying
  • Start

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • You
  • Something

• The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• Prior to joining NSD, I was briefly associated with a small theater group in Delhi called Sakshi. Saurabh Shukla, Manoj Bapayee were my seniors in that group. I performed a few supporting roles in Sakshi plays.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Small
  • Theater
  • Group

• Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Luxury
  • While

• People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Political
  • More

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Politics

• The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life - however much we deny or ignore it - that for ever remains.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Wisdom

• I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

  

  Mae West

• Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Men
  • Law

• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Evil

• Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Hate
  • Fashion

• Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Experience
  • Study

• I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality.

  

  Jennifer Westfeldt
  • Pretty
  • Quality

• I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.

  

  Trisha Yearwood

• I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.

  

  David Chang
  • School
  • Cooking

• We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Childhood

• I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Why
  • Design

• I used to be insecure about my butt, but I no longer think of clothes as something to make me look skinnier.

  

  Barbie Ferreira

• Porges coined the word “neuroception” to describe the capacity to evaluate relative danger and safety in one’s environment.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Environment
  • Safety
  • Neuroception