Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.
Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not.
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
Parker: It's got a great defense mechanism... you don't dare kill it...
Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispos...
I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens.
Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall--the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" d...
I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.
[Abusers] blame the world - circumstances, other people - for their defeats, misfortune, misconduct, and failures. The abuser firmly believes that his life is swayed by currents and persons over which he has no influence whatsoever (he has an externa...
