Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Some 80 percent of the fibers of the vagus nerve (which connects the brain with many internal organs) are afferent; that is, they run from the body into the brain.6 This means that we can directly train our arousal system by the way we breathe, chant, and move, a principle that has been utilized since time immemorial in places like China and India, and in every religious practice that I know of, but that is suspiciously eyed as “alternative” in mainstream culture.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
-
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
-
I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
-
I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
-
The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.
-
As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.
-
My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
-
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.
-
You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.
-
I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.
-
It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
-
You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
-
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
-
You've got to live and die by your decisions.
-
After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
-
I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.
-
From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.
-
I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.
-
There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warrior' is a better word.
-
I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.
-
If I'm on a boat I will wave to every breathing thing I pass. If I'm not on a boat I try to avoid every breathing thing I pass.
-
In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a 'siege situation' imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.
-
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
-
Some 80 percent of the fibers of the vagus nerve (which connects the brain with many internal organs) are afferent; that is, they run from the body into the brain.6 This means that we can directly train our arousal system by the way we breathe, chant, and move, a principle that has been utilized since time immemorial in places like China and India, and in every religious practice that I know of, but that is suspiciously eyed as “alternative” in mainstream culture.
