Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

When you're sick, who does the shopping or takes you to the doctor? Who do you talk to when you are upset?" In other words, who provides you with emotional and practical support? Some patients gave us surprising answers: "my dog" or "my therapist" – or "nobody".

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• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  

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• In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

  

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• I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

  

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• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

  

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• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

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• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

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• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

  

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• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  

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• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
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• I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

  

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• I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.

  

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• We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.

  

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• I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

  

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• I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

  

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• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  

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• What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

  

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• I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

  

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• We're all performing for someone.

  

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• The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

  

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• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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• When you're sick, who does the shopping or takes you to the doctor? Who do you talk to when you are upset?" In other words, who provides you with emotional and practical support? Some patients gave us surprising answers: "my dog" or "my therapist" – or "nobody".

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Support
  • Sick
  • Doctor