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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences. -- Albert Bandura
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem. -- Virginia Satir
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. -- Muriel Spark
I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping. -- Lorna Luft
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. -- Phil McGraw
Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.' -- Jane McGonigal
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. -- Herman Kahn
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free. -- Sophocles
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. -- Malcolm Bradbury
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? -- T. S. Eliot
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears. -- Barbara Deming
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. -- Robert Fulghum
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate. -- Ann Landers
Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable. -- Somaly Mam
Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception. -- Paul Russo
There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. -- Plato
No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties. -- Kate Middleton
Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul -- George Harrison
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
Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself. -- Epictetus
For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism. -- Sherri Shepherd
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. -- Monica Raymund
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. -- Chuck Palahniuk
As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews. -- Joanne Harris
I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself. -- Rachel Cusk
Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive. -- Jean Chatzky
So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping. -- Bob Inglis
When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image. -- Ludivine Sagnier
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves. -- J. G. Ballard
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy. -- David Blunkett
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
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with. -- Marianne Williamson
I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so mercurial - it's so ever-changing. You can't get any traction. You can't build on a system. Whereas, somebody who has Asperger's, which is certainly a much more forgiving expression of autism, can create models for coping and build on them over time. -- Claire Danes
The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story. -- Laini Taylor
I don't weigh myself. I just go by if my clothes fit. I try not to participate too much in the incredible amount of wasted energy that women have around dealing with food. I just feel like being healthy is sort of a job requirement to be on TV, and being a writer is so much coping with fatigue and stress, and you just eat. You eat to stay awake. -- Tina Fey
Routine is part of coping. -- Lorene Scafaria
Leadership is about coping with change -- John P. Kotter
MISTEND MINDSETManipulate suicidal thoughts to manufacture life-coping tools -- Kamil Ali
Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems -- Douglas Engelbart
Memory loss is one way of coping with damage. -- Jeanette Winterson
Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest. -- Sienna Miller
My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor. -- Max Brooks
The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism. -- John Bradshaw
I've always used humor, but I use humor when coping with things in general. -- Laura Michelle Kelly
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. Its my coping mechanism. -- Tessanne Chin
Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism. -- Tessanne Chin
Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment. -- Gregory S. Paul
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. -- Dean Koontz
Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality. -- Nathalie M. Llanto
Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are. -- Cathy Freeman
I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off! -- Helen Gurley Brown
The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast. -- Walter Wriston
I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time. -- Carnie Wilson
I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me. -- K. A. Applegate
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events. -- Anthony Giddens
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism. -- Chuck Palahniuk
People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping. -- Cary Cooper
You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in. -- Paul Theroux
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
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
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
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
Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it. -- Solange nicole
If Europe's example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don't drive them too much. -- Paul Krugman
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all. -- Diane Keaton
For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot. -- Robbie Jones
The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same. -- Mercedes Lackey
Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth. -- Elizabeth Janeway
The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it"). -- Brian Luke Seaward
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone. -- George Bernard Shaw
One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies -- Bruce Kent
You augment your strength every time you overcome obstacles. Discover and use that unique potential you have in coping well in a positive way no matter how worst the situation can be. -- Angelica Hopes
I have been addicted to it, and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping, and it's a form of self-medication, and I was smoking up to 15 to 20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco. -- Lady Gaga
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 -- Albert Bandura
I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening. -- Al Pacino
Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn't seem so dangerous at the time. -- Mark Slouka
Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully -- Albert Bandura
In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety. -- Willard Gaylin

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