Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Psychological problems occur when our internal signals don’t work, when our maps don’t lead us where we need to go, when we are too paralyzed to move.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Problem
  • Smart

• Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Live
  • Today

• I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.

  

  Adam Beach
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• With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Peace

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Family
  • School
  • Think

• It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Career
  • Me
  • Amazing

• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Hope
  • New
  • Recovery

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Pretty
  • Childhood
  • Mad

• I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Air
  • Years
  • Missing

• I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Deep
  • Victory
  • Ending

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Help
  • Free
  • Diet

• Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Theatre
  • Competition
  • Most

• I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Process
  • Songs

• I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

  

  Douglass North
  • School

• At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.

  

  John Lasseter
  • People
  • Work
  • Wall

• The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn't helping us forward, and the personal elements, it just was time to stop.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Time
  • Stop

• When I was first elected to the House in 2006, it was important to me to send a clear message to the people of NY-20: I wanted to be a representative for the people and shed some light on their government, so I became the first member of Congress to post my schedule, my financial disclosures and my earmark requests all online.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • People
  • Important
  • House

• I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Wish

• Psychological problems occur when our internal signals don’t work, when our maps don’t lead us where we need to go, when we are too paralyzed to move.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Work
  • Problems
  • Internal Signal