Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

The frontal lobes allow us to plan and reflect, to imagine and play out future scenarios.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Things

• One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Father
  • Name

• My confidence comes from my fights and my training.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Confidence
  • Training
  • Fights

• I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • God
  • Money

• I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Job
  • Coal
  • Mining

• It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

  

  J. C. Snead
  • Bad
  • Golf
  • Balls

• When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Free
  • Education
  • Educate

• I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Republican
  • Compliment

• You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Madness
  • Except

• If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Deep
  • Pool
  • Places

• It was a lot to carry out of a childhood-all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina-but a lot of us did it. In those anicured lives and choreographed marriages there was an often-pronounced loneliness, an emptiness that we would try to fill with our own accomplishments. And our role, the one we would have so much trouble trying to shed later, was simply to be the best little girls in the world, the high- achieving, make-no-waves, roperly behaved little kittens.

  

  Anne Fleming
  • Role
  • Loneliness
  • Accomplishments

• I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Thinking
  • Winning
  • Perspective

• I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Police

• Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Change
  • Humans
  • Imagine

• We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

  

  Niki Ashton
  • Women
  • Money
  • Violence

• The frontal lobes allow us to plan and reflect, to imagine and play out future scenarios.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Imagine
  • Scenarios
  • Frontal Lobes