Coping Quotations

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

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

It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I think partly it's because they're still making sense of the world. They haven't boxed everything up so neatly as most adults have. And the thing is adults haven't solved the world - they've just found a coping mechanism.

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.

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.

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

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

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

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.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

I think it's very important to support the program in your area, as each part of the country has its own challenges coping with AIDS. It can be very different from state to state and city to city. Wherever you live, there is surely someone who could use your help.

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.

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.

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.

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

As a country with experience of coping with earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters, Japan believes in emphasizing the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction. We therefore prioritize investment in disaster prevention and post-disaster improvements under a policy of Build Back Better (BBB).

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

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

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.

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

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Now we are watching the agony, we are watching the suffering, we can see the extreme destruction, ... That is extremely hard for people to grasp. It's beyond the day-to-day human experience of most people. It's beyond the coping mechanisms of daily life.

We're not coping very well at all. The fact that it was during Christmastime is very hard.

Grieving is a process. There's a process of the shock, the anger, and then coping with the situation. You have to experience all of those levels to move forward, and sometimes you need help in that.

Given the massive catastrophe losses absorbed by insurers in nine-months 2005, the increase in income and surplus during the first three quarters of the year is a testament to the underlying financial health of the industry. But we can't afford to lose sight of the fact that, as bad as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were, insurers and the public remain exposed to far more devastating catastrophes that could strain insurers' ability to fulfill their obligations to policyholders. According to PCS, Hurricane Katrina caused a record $38.1 billion in direct insured losses to property. But catastrophe modeling by AIR Worldwide shows we face the prospect of hurricanes causing more than $100 billion in damage. Even as we applaud insurers' success coping with the catastrophes of 2005, we must do more to assure that insurers and the people they serve will survive when even more devastating storms strike.

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

For some reason, we have a perfect politician coping with a perfect storm of tragedy and national attention.

He has had a tremendous impact on the squad. The fact his own performance was so exceptional during the November Tests means he is coping well with the extra responsibility.

Whatever the problem, they focus on food and eating as a way of coping with these stresses.

He is not having any problems coping and he carries the ball on his instep with the only problem being the speed he is going.

Looking at our management capacity and how we are coping with the opening up, I believe they are appropriate.

Lonely people differ from non-lonely individuals in their tendency to perceive stressful circumstances as threatening rather than challenging, and to passively cope with stress by failing to solicit instrumental and emotional support and by withdrawing from stress rather than by actively coping and attempting to problem solve.

Peak hunting periods coincide with dry season drought months, as vegetation is less dense and wildlife searching for watering holes are easier to hunt and locate. Hence supply peaks during times of hardship and constitutes an important drought and famine coping strategy for the majority in the rural areas surveyed.

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.

It goes from the very top all the way down when you're trying to restore things, and the football coach isn't at the very top. I've been to a lot of Memorial's workouts and their games the past couple of years, and I thought (former coach) Dean Colbert did a good job while coping with an overwhelming task.

most effective treatments for methamphetamine addiction are cognitive behavioral interventions - designed to help modify the patient's thinking, expectancies and behaviors, and to increase skills in coping with various life stressors.

We are now at a critical point for the industry in terms of fuel prices. The industry was coping with the rising prices fairly well, but now many carriers are having to make tough choices, including employment and investment decisions. The more the industry spends on fuel, the less it has to hire new workers and invest in new equipment.

Whilst we do not foresee any major reduction in fuel prices in the medium term, at present the company, and the industry in general, appears to be coping satisfactorily with the exposure to a high fuel cost environment.

When symptoms clearly begin to interfere with daily functions, students who are having trouble going to class and getting assignments done, they need some coping methods - counseling can help with that.

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.

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

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

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

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

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

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

Women who attend support groups and counseling for a reasonable period of time are likely to gain some better coping skills, learn the signs of abuse, become stronger and feel better about themselves and their decisions, so they are more likely to move into independent living and less likely to return to the battering situation. It's a key to their becoming independent and increasing their self-esteem ... so that they can make decisions for themselves and move forward.

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

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.

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.

Years go by and people are together, but there was an individual there for 26 years, or whatever, who was absolutely fine, coping without you.

Entrepreneurs are not as optimistic as they were earlier in the year, which is an indication our economy may be leveling off to some extent, ... Certainly, small-business owners are experiencing more cost pressures than they were in the spring, and it is no secret small businesses are coping with rising gas prices.

At the moment we are asking people to play in strange positions, but the players deserve great credit for coping with that.

An eating disorder is a coping mechanism keeping you from more pain, but you have to ask yourself - is this in my best interest? And it's not. It only causes more pain and suffering.

The other advantage to showing this work now as compared to seeing the coverage that we saw at the time is that we do see the stories after the fact. We do see how people are coping six or seven months later. It's not just the immediate impact.

Some patients may have no symptoms of depression, but they do not feel that they have returned to their normal selves because they are not functioning normally or they still lack the confidence in coping with the normal stresses of everyday life. Others may have mild symptoms but consider themselves free of depression. It's important to determine whether mental health professionals should expand their definition of remission beyond symptoms of depression.

Fans are relatively resilient in coping with loss. If we weren't, there would be no Cubs fans.

They're trying to see how teachers and students in this area are coping with everything.

I never reached that point. But I can see where families can get that far. It tests your coping skills. It's just as important for parents to take care of themselves as much as the child.

In my mind, the core issue has always been prevention. My views were shaped by my experiences with women who were managing and coping with unintended pregnancies and unwanted children.

I'm not really concerned. We are used to coping with what Champions League matches take out of us. We've learned how to deal with domestic duties after a European Cup outing.

I hope (the ban) doesn't backfire because there's so much stress and so much isolation. They offend because they don't really have good coping mechanisms and I'm afraid more stress is going to (cause the ban to backfire). They're already under Megan's Law -- community supervision for life -- and that's stressful for them. But add to that ... Where are you going to live? Where are you going to go?

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

Their coping tactics may be able to give us a glimpse into the future of clinical resistance to antibiotics.

His ability to engage with ordinary Iraqi citizens and military personnel enables CNN's viewers to gain a better understanding of how everyone involved in the future of Iraq is coping with the on-going altercations and state of uncertainty in the country,

They'll leave him there for a couple of weeks and find out how he's travelling. But he seems to be coping OK.

It is the poor that are hit the hardest and they have the least coping mechanisms and probably don't have insurance. Their homes are completely gone and they probably won't be able to rebuild and regain their livelihoods.

The goal of the symposium is not to focus solely on dire predictions commonly attributed to climate change but rather to assess its impact and seek solutions while we emphasize how communities that feel its consequences are coping with its effects right now. We want to discuss climate change from a wide range of perspectives, including economic, scientific, cultural and religious, to emphasize the complexity of the issue while demonstrating its many facets. It has the potential to impact our lives in many ways and therefore it concerns all aspects of society, not just scientists and environmentalists.

The highly anticipated first trade went off without a hitch, and that eased investor concerns. The exchange is coping well with orders.

Along the way I saw the evidence that J.B. was dealing with depression. I was coping with my own depression, ... It was not so difficult to bring it up with J.B., because I knew I was almost with a fellow traveler on this very tough journey.

A lot people are in denial about it. They look at it as a real negative. It's a coping mechanism and not a positive one.

A lot of times kids, maybe they're resilient to begin with. And they've got good coping skills when the tragedy happens ... They're able to see the silver lining to the cloud.

The idea is to get at their initial coping experience.

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.

At least at Duke, you can't get away from this case. It's all people talk about. If your coping strategy for dealing with your assault is to not think about it, that's not an option here.

It's a way of coping with the challenge brought on by remembering we are living in a hurricane zone.

We fully understand the terrific strain Tulane University has been under in coping with this tragedy, ... We are doing everything we can to assist Tulane in its hurricane recovery efforts.

This is a very positive step for our farmers and ranchers who are coping with losses from weather-related disasters.

Her coping mechanism with us was to not be here.

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

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

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.

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

Leadership is about coping with change

Routine is part of coping.

The fool learns by suffering.

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

Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.

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.

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.

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

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.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

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

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.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

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

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).