Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Brain-imaging tools have started to show us what actually happens inside the brains of traumatized people. This has proven essential to understanding the damage inflicted by trauma and has guided us to formulate entirely new avenues of repair.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Real
  • Think
  • Psychology

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Family
  • Soul

• The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Islamic

• I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Different
  • Real
  • Together

• I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • House
  • Singing

• We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Home
  • Debate
  • France

• It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Great
  • Book
  • Single

• I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • School
  • Job
  • Parents

• Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Christian
  • Born
  • Well

• I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • World
  • Focused
  • Improve

• What I love best in life is new starts.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Best
  • New

• When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Up
  • Speak
  • Ability

• My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Body

• There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Rules

• I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Real
  • Dreams

• Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Understanding
  • Gift
  • Offer

• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Someone

• For every show that we do, anyone that rides public transit, bikes, or walk, we offer them a $5 voucher at the merch table. It gets people using the infrastructure in the area. Hopefully, the venues where we play will lobby city council and say, we need bike paths, sidewalk repair. That stuff affects so many people's lives.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Infrastructure
  • Affects
  • Repair

• One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was just this way once before, exactly so; for an instant you almost know how it must go on, but then it disappears as you try to lay hold of it like smoke or a dead memory. "We could never remember, Isabelle," I say. "It's like the rain. That has also become one, out of two gasses, oxygen and hydrogen, which no longer remember they were once gasses. Now they are only rain and have no memory of an earlier time.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Remember
  • Rain
  • Memory

• Brain-imaging tools have started to show us what actually happens inside the brains of traumatized people. This has proven essential to understanding the damage inflicted by trauma and has guided us to formulate entirely new avenues of repair.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Tools
  • Damage
  • Brains