Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

This research confirms what our patients tell us: that the self can be detached from the body and live a phantom existence on its own. Similarly, Lanius and Frewen, as well as a group of researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands,26 did brain scans on people who dissociated their terror and found that the fear centers of the brain simply shut down as they recalled the event.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Interest
  • Lie
  • National

• Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Day
  • Best

• I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Drawing
  • Ties
  • Keeps

• I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Very
  • Computers

• I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • Humble
  • Listen

• To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Moving
  • Regard
  • Peers

• 'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Man
  • Dangerous
  • Creature

• 'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Black
  • New
  • Orange

• You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Feel
  • Thing
  • Sore

• Can someone please explain to me what that was all about?

  

  Carl Reiner

• Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • She
  • Business
  • Success

• The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.

  

  Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
  • People
  • Peace

• A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Death
  • Die
  • Clothes

• He shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter, which will help our low-post players, ... He is a veteran who brings both playoff experience and leadership.

  

  Elgin Baylor
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Leadership

• In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

  

  Aron Nimzowitsch
  • King
  • Endgame
  • Middlegame

• I think the message of peace is for everyone.

  

  Jude Law
  • Peace
  • Everyone
  • Message

• Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Existence
  • Grief
  • Sorrow

• This research confirms what our patients tell us: that the self can be detached from the body and live a phantom existence on its own. Similarly, Lanius and Frewen, as well as a group of researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands,26 did brain scans on people who dissociated their terror and found that the fear centers of the brain simply shut down as they recalled the event.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Existence
  • Terror
  • Event