Coping Quotes - Page 2

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

That was my earliest maladaptive coping mechanism I forged when I was a kid. I found that my fists weren't going to do any significant protective work for me, so my mouth was it. Making my father laugh was a way to control him.

Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.

Some people who are recovering from depression want to use the lessons they're learned in coping with depression and their empathy for people with depression. Others want their career to have nothing to do with depression.

Routine is part of coping.

I don't think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too.

I've always used humor, but I use humor when coping with things in general.

Music was my coping mechanism. I could place myself outside my body. It humbles you.

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

We all deal with a certain amount of stress, on a day-to-day basis. I probably smoke too many cigarettes, which isn't a very good thing. I don't have any extraordinary coping mechanism. I certainly don't talk to a dog.

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.