Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
The frontal lobes allow us to plan and reflect, to imagine and play out future scenarios.
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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.
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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.
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My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
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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.
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I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.
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It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.
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As you get older, you become more unapologetic about how you really are, how you feel about things, and you really say it out loud.
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It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
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The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .
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The frontal lobes allow us to plan and reflect, to imagine and play out future scenarios.
