Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to experiences and thus are the foundation of reason.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Actor

• We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Eye
  • Moon
  • Animals

• I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Money
  • Racism
  • Economics

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Growth
  • Belief
  • Slow

• Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Everybody
  • Clean

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Prayer
  • Process
  • Just

• Win pretty, win ugly, just win.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Pretty
  • Win
  • Ugly

• Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Stop

• When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.

  

  Nancy E. Turner
  • Life
  • Book
  • Stop

• To get people to eat well don’t say a word about health, just cook fantastic food for them.

  

  Ellie Krieger
  • People
  • Health
  • Eat

• Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don’t know what I would have done without that positive boost.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Life
  • Done
  • Positive

• The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Done

• Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Aristotle
  • Human Understanding
  • Father Of Logic

• There are things you do because they feel right and they make no sense and they make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to say it was good!

  

  Dorothy Stang
  • Good
  • Money
  • Love

• Emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to experiences and thus are the foundation of reason.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Reason
  • Emotion
  • Foundation