Bidirectional Quotes & Sayings

How many mental health problems, from drug addiction to self-injurious behavior, start as attempts to cope with the unbearable physical pain of our emotions? If Darwin was right, the solution requires finding ways to help people alter the inner sensory landscape of their bodies. Until recently, this bidirectional communication between body and mind was largely ignored by Western science, even as it had long been central to traditional healing practices in many other parts of the world, notably in India and China. Today it is transforming our understanding of trauma and recovery. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

I don't use cages - I've been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten. — Michael Muller

His resolve was blown as quickly as the rest of him. — John Irving

I smiled, but it was a cold, heartless expression. Because you're in my killing fields now, bitch. — Jennifer Estep

He was not a good salesman, especially if selling himself. He didn't believe in boasting, and didn't like listening to others do it, either. He wanted to be recognized for his actions, not his words. "I don't know how to ask people to sponsor me," Zhou said. "It feels just like begging people for money. I can't do that. — Dan Washburn

We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives ... then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last — Israelmore Ayivor

One neural network called bidirectional associative memory (BAM) allows you to provide the value and receive the key. — Jeff Heaton

You're going to be a great player, kid. — Jackie Robinson

You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others. — Bryant McGill

Tap Life on the shoulders and fall a little more in love. — Rachel Hawthorne

Because I am an officer and a gentleman they have given me my notebooks, pen, ink and paper. So I write and wait. I am committed to no cause, I love no living person. The fact that I have no future except what you can count in hours doesn't seem to disturb me unduly. After all, the future whether here or there is equally unknown. So for the waiting days I have only the past to play about with. I can juggle with a series of possibly inaccurate memories, my own interpretation, for what is worth, of events. There is no place for speculation or hope, or even dreams. Strangely enough I think I like it like that. — Jennifer Johnston

It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientific innovations we are witnessing into health gains for the nation. At no other time has the need for a robust, bidirectional information flow between basic and translational scientists been so necessary. — Elias Zerhouni

I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking. — James Cameron

- leave me," Japhrimel snarled. "You will not leave me to wander the earth alone - breathe, damn you, breathe! — Lilith Saintcrow

If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It's unavoidable. — Errol Morris

I'm foolishly self-conscious. — Andrew Smith

Questioning is simply more powerful than answering. — Kevin Kelly