Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
If you’re still in it, it’s hard to talk about it. I wasn’t able to attach in the way that you need to attach and open up in the way that you need to open up in order to have any type of relationship with a therapist.” This was a stunning revelation: So many patients are in and out of treatment, unable to meaningfully connect because they are still “in it.” Of course, when people don’t know who they are, they can’t possibly see the reality of the people around them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
-
Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
-
I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
-
Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
-
All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
-
I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
-
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
-
If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
-
Bullies always have another target.
-
My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
-
In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
-
It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
-
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
-
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
-
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
-
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
-
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
-
Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
-
The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
-
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
-
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.
-
What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.
-
When I was in high school, I was a late bloomer. And just like all those supermodels who said they were gawky and no one liked them, that was me - metaphorically. And so I was ready to rise like a phoenix in later times.
-
If you’re still in it, it’s hard to talk about it. I wasn’t able to attach in the way that you need to attach and open up in the way that you need to open up in order to have any type of relationship with a therapist.” This was a stunning revelation: So many patients are in and out of treatment, unable to meaningfully connect because they are still “in it.” Of course, when people don’t know who they are, they can’t possibly see the reality of the people around them.
