Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

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

Bessel van der Kolk

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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

• El Paso is where I started. I don't feel like I'd be making the music I'm making now if I hadn't gone there.

  

  Khalid
  • Music

• 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

• I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

  

  Joe Pantoliano

• 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 say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.

  

  Carmen Miranda
  • Money
  • Words
  • English

• Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Nation
  • Foundations
  • Thomas Jefferson

• We must together chart a new way forward to save our beloved nation.

  

  Anwar Ibrahim
  • Way
  • Nation
  • Save

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

  

  Bessel van der Kolk