Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Unlike normal memories, traumatic memories are more like fragments of sensations, emotions, reactions, and images that keep getting reexperienced in the present.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Heaven
  • Name
  • Grandmother

• Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • She
  • Same

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Very

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Song
  • Big

• I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Feel
  • Journey
  • Surgery

• Alike all ages. Dames of ancient daysHave led their children through the mirthful maze,And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Children
  • Gay

• The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

  

  Alberto Manguel

• I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Fun

• They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, 'Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3.' … WELL, THEN IT'S MINUS 3, ASSHOLE! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Why
  • Today

• When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'

  

  Chaley Rose

• Losing has nothing to do with geography.

  

  Chuck Noll

• I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

  

  David Prowse
  • Star

• The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

  

  Christopher Morley

• You work for whatever you get in life.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

  

  Jan Garbarek

• My head is full of shifting patterns and polyrhythmic stuff; but I want to use all acoustic instruments and create this kind of tapestry of interlocking lulling parts.

  

  Andrew Bird

• The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Faith

• Unlike normal memories, traumatic memories are more like fragments of sensations, emotions, reactions, and images that keep getting reexperienced in the present.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Memories
  • Images
  • Sensations