Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

They learned to shut down their once overwhelming emotions, and, as a result, they no longer recognized what they were feeling. Few of them had any interest in therapy.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I don't really go out at all.

  

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• There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

  

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• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

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• I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

  

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• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  

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• I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
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• I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'

  

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• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  

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• I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

  

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  • Think
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• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

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• 42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.

  

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• It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

  

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• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

  

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• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  

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• Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.

  

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• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

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• The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

  

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• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

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• It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".

  

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• They learned to shut down their once overwhelming emotions, and, as a result, they no longer recognized what they were feeling. Few of them had any interest in therapy.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Learned
  • Emotions
  • Therapy