Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

two critical aspects of the adaptive response to threat that is basic to human survival.

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• I think all politicians lie.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • Lie
  • Politicians

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Science
  • Never
  • Fiction

• I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Man
  • Powerful
  • Creative

• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Myself
  • Difference

• Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • You
  • Healing

• The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Up
  • May
  • Running

• Let me say something else about this generation. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Pretty
  • Military

• Experience teaches only the teachable…

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Experience

• The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Air

• Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Song

• If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.

  

  James Woods

• California - with more cars, more drivers and more people - still has less DWI-related deaths than Texas does.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • People
  • California
  • Texas

• It's great to be boxing a local boxer. The atmosphere is always fantastic. I love those fights. I really relish those fights.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Great
  • Boxing

• We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Crazy

• When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.

  

  Jay Samit
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• I don't always see humor in things. Especially when I smash my pinky toe into a coffee table leg in the middle of the night. But sometimes I'll see things, or experience things, that make me go, "Huh, maybe that's a bit."

  

  Brian Regan
  • Night
  • Sometimes
  • Coffee

• The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.

  

  David Letterman
  • Water
  • Dog
  • Spring

• In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can truly control is our attitudes. If that's true, then I'm going to spend today walking my 14-year-old dog on a free beach and treasuring the fact that she's still alive.

  

  Ali Liebegott
  • People
  • She
  • True

• You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Work

• Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself.

  

  Merrie Spaeth
  • Himself
  • Sellers
  • Reinvented

• two critical aspects of the adaptive response to threat that is basic to human survival.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk