Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

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• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Effort

• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • New
  • Eating

• I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Business
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Politics
  • Spring

• Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Inspiration
  • Working

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Present

• It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Daily
  • Breakfast

• The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Sin
  • Greatest
  • Boring

• I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Conversations
  • Opinionated

• 'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Book
  • Political

• I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Poets
  • Functions
  • Hallucinations

• Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
  • America
  • Help

• The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Understanding
  • Road

• I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Game

• The first time you listen to someone else's interpretation of what you've created, it's a little unnerving. They'll change lyrics or something almost every time. That's them being an artist, and you appreciate it more over time.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Time
  • Lyrics

• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Reality
  • Free
  • Unknown

• [Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• In the beginning, me and my bandmates just did stuff on our own - we had smoke bombs, we'd dress as crazy and as weird as we possibly could, just to give ourselves a different ambience. But when we started making money, of course, the ideas started getting bigger. We were big fans of Broadway; we were like, "Man, when you go see a Broadway show, you just get pulled right out of reality; you're into their world for a two-hour period. It would be nice if we could do that onstage with a music concert".

  

  Philip Bailey Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Money
  • Reality
  • Crazy

• Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Reality
  • Trauma
  • Disoders