Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
There is a built-in mechanism by which we respond fairly strongly and fairly negatively to somebody who is being negative or to somebody who is simply disagreeing with us, in which case it's a very unhappy position for our brain to be in. Our brain does not want us to be wrong. Because that has very dire consequences in terms of our overall survival.
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science.
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.
It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?
Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that it's true. Darwin didn't know the mechanism of heredity, but you don't have to. You just need to know the fact of it.
One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.
Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.
There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.
Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.
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.
I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.