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

• 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 took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Oysters
  • Cocktails
  • Shellfish

• As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.

  

  James Irwin
  • Change
  • Imagine
  • Size

• When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine what that would be. But Toronto, the last few times I've been here, what always comes up is Chicago and West Berlin. It's a big, sprawling city beside a lake, of a certain age and a certain architectural complexity. But the high-end retail core looks more like West Germany than the Magnificent Mile. Yonge Street is like K-Damm. There's an excess of surface marble and bronze: it's Germanic and as pretentious as pretentious can be.

  

  William Gibson
  • Age
  • Imagine
  • Complexity

• I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Imagine
  • Adventures

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

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Imagine
  • Scenarios
  • Frontal Lobes