Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Hypersensitized to her memories of the past and that the best treatment would be some form of desensitization.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Jobs

• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Focus
  • Positive
  • Choose

• I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Believe
  • Practice
  • Decisions

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Try
  • Old

• If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Competition

• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Know
  • Irish
  • Musicians

• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Justice
  • Progress

• It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Now
  • Clear
  • Major

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

  

  Mary Bono
  • Energy

• The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Up
  • Horse

• Windows never planned for a VR device. When you plug a HDMI cable into the computer, Windows thinks it's a new monitor. The desktop blinks. It tries to rearrange windows and icons.

  

  Brendan Iribe

• It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • World

• My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn't switch places with any of them.

  

  Blaize Clement
  • Day
  • Sunset
  • Pet-sitting

• I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Memories
  • I Love
  • Embrace

• Hypersensitized to her memories of the past and that the best treatment would be some form of desensitization.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Memories
  • Treatment
  • Desensitization