Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, revised edition.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Walter Anderson
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That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
Harri Holkeri
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
Orhan Pamuk
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
Captain Beefheart
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
Warren Spector
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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
E. Stanley Jones
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
Sam Smith
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
Ursula Burns
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
Camilo Villegas
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
Laura Dern
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white.
Annabelle Selldorf
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
Terence McKenna
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SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?
Isaac Asimov
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...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.
William Faulkner
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Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, revised edition.
Bessel van der Kolk
