Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Trauma interferes with the proper functioning of brain areas that manage and interpret experience.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Up
  • You
  • Growing

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Live
  • Expectations

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • Healthy
  • Stand

• My wife watches me like a hawk.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Like

• As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • House
  • Space
  • Individual

• If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Best
  • Value

• I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Respect
  • Fire
  • Legacy

• Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Together
  • Study

• We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Mission
  • Jewelry

• Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• A machine has no mind to read; you never know when it’s going to betray you-

  

  Larry Niven
  • Mind

• Vitaque mancipio, nulli datur, omnibus usu.

  

  Lucretius

• You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Up
  • World

• I think a lot of 'Edward Scissorhands' was about the suburban world that Burton grew up in feeling like an outcast. I feel like there's no way it's not at least a little autobiographical from that standpoint. I always liked that.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Up
  • World
  • Feeling

• I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

  

  Andrew Scott
  • Important

• It is the business of the teacher … to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Business
  • Teacher

• When I was a kid, probably 16 or 17, I got spotted by a model scout that wanted to represent me, and they sent me one modeling job, for Wall's ice cream. I did one job for them, and then a catwalk shoot for Kangol caps, and decided modeling was not for me.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Job
  • Model
  • Wall

• He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

  

  David Pleat
  • Career
  • Football
  • Talent

• My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Nature

• Trauma interferes with the proper functioning of brain areas that manage and interpret experience.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Manage
  • Trauma