Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

We become reactive and disorganized; our filters stop working—sounds and lights bother us, unwanted images from the past intrude on our minds, and we panic or fly into rages.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Woman

• If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Night
  • Star
  • Sun

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Films

• Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • School
  • Respect
  • Peace

• My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • She
  • Player

• It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

  

  John Travolta
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Believe
  • Moral
  • I Believe

• The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • World
  • Black

• Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

  

  Caitlin Thomas

• My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Speak
  • Foundation
  • Relation

• I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Experiences

• There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • People
  • Believe
  • Vulnerable

• I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Games
  • Adventure
  • Characters

• The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • First
  • Wise Man
  • Finds

• I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Better
  • Lights

• I've been... chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don't know what it's like being chased by them.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Lights
  • Paparazzi
  • Chased

• We become reactive and disorganized; our filters stop working—sounds and lights bother us, unwanted images from the past intrude on our minds, and we panic or fly into rages.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Images
  • Lights
  • Panic