Coping Mechanisms Quotes:

Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

- Amy Pietz

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Self, Coping Mechanisms, Alcohol, Survival Instinct, Self Deprecation

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.

- Laura Michelle Kelly

source: "Laura Michelle unleashes her inner Chuck Norris". Interview with Carissa Shuman, thecelebritycafe.com. August 26, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Coping Mechanisms, Bully

Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.

- Chevy Stevens

topic: Book, Character, Coping Mechanisms

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.

- John Ridley

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Vegas, Coping Mechanisms, Hustle, Thought Process

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

- Phil McGraw

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Confused, Coping Mechanisms, Giving, Lost And Confused

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.

- Robert Reich

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Home, Coping Mechanisms, Typical

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.

- Ryan Reynolds

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Father, Kids, Coping Mechanisms

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.

- Elijah Wood

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Dog, Stress, Coping Mechanisms

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I’m definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they’re like when you take their preferred substance away.

- Natasha Lyonne

source: "Natasha Lyonne, Locked Up". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2013.

topic: Heart, Coping Mechanisms, Self, Self Destruct

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Wish, Peacekeeping, Peace Of Heart, Coping Mechanisms

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Differences, Problem, Coping, Lump In The Throat, Coping Mechanisms

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

- Monica Raymund

topic: Lying, Survival, Technique, Defense Mechanisms, Coping Mechanisms

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Baby, Giving, Lust, Invisible Monsters, Intellectualism

It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.

- Keith Boykin

topic: Growing Up, Struggle, Responsibility, Complicated World, Coping Mechanisms

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Marriage, Mother, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

- Robert Fulghum

source: Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

topic: Life, Positive, Future, Overcoming Challenges, Lump In The Throat

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

- John Lennon

topic: Giving, Wish, Life Is, Peacekeeping, Peace With Others

Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

- Dan Brown

topic: Morning, Stress, Block, Coping Mechanisms

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

- Muriel Spark

topic: Children, Inspirational Life, Parent, Coping Mechanisms

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Life, Dance, Thinking, Work And Life Balance, Life Balance

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

- Robert Fulghum

source: Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

topic: Love, Life, Death, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Bereavement

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.

- Robin Ince

topic: Ideas, Knowing, Trying, Coping Mechanisms

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

- Gregory S. Paul

topic: Anxiety, Religion, Atheism, Coping Mechanisms

I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

- Ransom Riggs

source: Ransom Riggs (2012). “Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past”, p.4, Harper Collins

topic: Growing Up, Kids, Florida, South Florida, Kids Growing Up

Only when Stephen Strange has his accident and everything that he's ever had in his life falls apart that he becomes pretty monstrous. It's the self-loathing rage of a wounded animal and he doesn't have a coping mechanism at all. It ties in with the discipline and the magic of this world.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

source: Source: www.empireonline.com

topic: Fall, Animal, Self, Wounded Animal, Coping Mechanisms

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

- Walter Wriston

topic: Use, Events, Coping, Coping Mechanisms

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. Its my coping mechanism.

- Tessanne Chin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Singing, Just Being, Coping, Coping Mechanisms

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

- Max Brooks

topic: Use, Coping, Dyslexia, Wit And Humor, Coping Mechanisms

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

- Carnie Wilson

topic: Friendship, Years, Long, Coping Mechanisms

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

- Gary Oldman

topic: Drug, Would Be, Looks, Coping Mechanisms

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.

- Mark Thomas

topic: Reality, Religion, Atheism, Dissonance, Cognitive Dissonance

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

- Sherri Shepherd

topic: Quirky, Way, Coping, Coping Mechanisms

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Revenge, Giving, Spotlight, Mechanism, Coping Mechanisms