Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

After having been traumatized, people automatically keep repeating certain actions, emotions, and sensations related to the trauma.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • High
  • Water

• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Play

• I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Like
  • Tolerate

• If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

  

  Karen Mills
  • World
  • Small
  • Grow

• I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Something
  • Writer

• When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Always
  • Big
  • Yard

• I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • City
  • President
  • Big City

• There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Experience
  • End
  • Logic

• Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fear
  • Use
  • Cowardice

• What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Up
  • Government

• A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Beautiful
  • Gold
  • New

• Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Work
  • Book
  • Opportunity

• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Always

• To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Night
  • Decision
  • Basketball

• I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Children
  • Regret
  • Grandchildren

• In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Picture

• I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Day
  • Always
  • Doing

• To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

  

  Mark Lazarevich Levi
  • Good
  • Done

• [On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

  

  Jeane Dixon
  • Dreadful
  • Assassination
  • President Kennedy

• It's fun. When we win, we don't have to look at the standings. When we lose, we have to hope that someone else lost.

  

  Bob Wickman
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Win

• After having been traumatized, people automatically keep repeating certain actions, emotions, and sensations related to the trauma.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Emotions
  • Sensations
  • Traumatized