Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Caregivers not only help keep arousal within manageable bounds but also help infants develop their own ability to regulate their arousal.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
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And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
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Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.
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Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs.
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Our kids grew up here [in the White House]. Some of our best friends have been made here in this place. There have been moments that were highlights for us - that - you know, are going to be hard to duplicate.
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Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities that feel forgotten. That's going to be our most important strategy. And I think we can successfully do that.
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Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
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There are just some things that you can't deny.
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The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.
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Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.
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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
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Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.
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Caregivers not only help keep arousal within manageable bounds but also help infants develop their own ability to regulate their arousal.
