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 really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Watches
  • Nuts
  • Machinery

• I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.

  

  Jan Hus
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

  

  Scott Turow
  • People
  • Art
  • Succeed

• In the mazes of loitering people, the watchful and furtive,The shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves,In the drowse of the sunlight, among the low voices,I suddenly face you

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • People
  • Tree

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

  

  Bessel van der Kolk