Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Noticing our annoyance, nervousness, or anxiety immediately helps us shift our perspective and opens up new options other than our automatic, habitual reactions.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
Taylor Caldwell
To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
Edie Campbell
When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.
Patrick Duffy
On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol
Our brothers, cousins, uncles, husbands, neighbors were in the war, ... Not everyone's cousin or uncle is in this war.
Dennis Hastert
The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.
Chogyam Trungpa
Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
Gautama Buddha
What, if as said, man is a bubble.
Marcus Terentius Varro
I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in the UK had to do two years "National Service" in one of the armed forces. I chose the Royal Air Force over the Army and Navy. My father's reputation went before me and therefore the RAF encouraged me to box. There is much rivalry in sporting competitions between the Army, Navy and RAF. Competing has great privileges. I didn't need too much encouragement with all these perks being offered, so I started training with a vengeance.
Brian London
Bayes’s Rule tells us that when it comes to making predictions based on limited evidence, few things are as important as having good priors—that is, a sense of the distribution from which we expect that evidence to have come. Good predictions thus begin with having good instincts about when we’re dealing with a normal distribution and when with a power-law distribution. As it turns out, Bayes’s Rule offers us a simple but dramatically different predictive rule of thumb for each.
Brian Christian
In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.
Richard Pryor
It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity.
Paul Kane
As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.
Raymond Loewy
No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.
Esther Dyson
My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
Uma Thurman
So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse.
Josephine Angelini
Exactly right. For many African Americans, voting in person holds deep significance. It’s why we need to ensure robust options for in-person voting are retained & available everywhere.
Derrick Johnson
Noticing our annoyance, nervousness, or anxiety immediately helps us shift our perspective and opens up new options other than our automatic, habitual reactions.
Bessel van der Kolk
