Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
There can be no growth without curiosity and no adaptability without being able to explore, through trial and error, who you are and what matters to you.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
-
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
-
The patient decides when it's best to go.
-
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
-
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
-
Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
-
Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
-
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
-
If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
-
When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.
-
Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
-
Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.
-
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
-
I tried to forget about playing Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character.
-
I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.
-
I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.
-
I get occasional tweets from people asking what shampoo and conditioner I use. I go straight for the Costco brand, Kirkland brand, the bulk shampoo. That's as far as I go.
-
I try to start every day with some sort of vegetable and fruit juice before I eat any kind of solid food. Because that really jump starts your body and digestive system with the high content of micronutrients that your body needs.
-
One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
-
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
-
I'm an old trial lawyer.
-
There was no room in him for curiosity; The capacity for observation had long since starved on the aridness of his soul.
-
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
-
There can be no growth without curiosity and no adaptability without being able to explore, through trial and error, who you are and what matters to you.
