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
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• 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
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• 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

• There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Movie
  • Wise
  • Everything

• 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

• When you're filming something, you have marks and spots you have to be in.

  

  Dani Levy
  • Something
  • Filming
  • Marks

• At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Poet

• A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Free
  • Knowledge
  • Simple

• 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