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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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.
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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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Today, and everyday, take as your personal mantra: I am what I am and what I am is wonderful.
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It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
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When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.
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You can't do it unless you can imagine it.
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How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?
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The frontal lobes allow us to plan and reflect, to imagine and play out future scenarios.
