Quotes of: Defense-mechanism Keyword

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.

Matthew Fox

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

Michael Rosenbaum

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role.

Dick Cheney

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.

Joe Rogan

There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.

Damon Lindelof

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

I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

Tanit Phoenix

Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.

Deepak Chopra

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

Daisaku Ikeda

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Jerzy Kosinski

I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'

Anthony Fauci

In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the demand of the moment.

August Krogh

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

Life

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one way or the other. Technical perfection strives...

The Glass Bees

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

Robert M. Gates

I can sing!" I say defensively adding, "Like a choking cat.

Sarah Enchanted

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

Matt Bomer

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

Mike McCarthy

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Paul Elmer More