Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Modeling

• Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Reading

• Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'

  

  Andy Roddick
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Great
  • Interest
  • Sense

• All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Work
  • Different
  • Idea

• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Music
  • Filters

• If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

  

  Jimmie Davis
  • Want
  • Guitar
  • Bigs

• Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Stage
  • Lasts

• You can find me in the frozen mood section.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Mood
  • Frozen
  • Sections

• If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Dream
  • Earth
  • Disaster

• There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

  

  Micky Dolenz The Monkees
  • Business
  • Never
  • Preasure

• Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Passions
  • Trauma
  • Devastation