Protection Mechanism Quotes

I do rock the sunglasses. To a rude point, at times. But I don't care, it's my first defence. I'm shy, so I've gotta have something. I need some protection, man.

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Until all the powerful are just, the weak will be secure only in the strength of this assembly.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

That's a really healthy thing - family will always protect you from yourself.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

I moved around so much when I was younger that I sort of had to have this type of exterior; you know, I was afraid of getting hurt.

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

A strong egoism is a protection.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

I got my process down, I got my way I go about things and I surround myself with good people around me and they've done a great job of protecting me.

I was quite a shy person growing up, and drag was very much a shield for me to perform behind.

As many problems as there are with Hollywood, I feel so much more protected because if there's a serious issue, I have someone I can talk to. Where's that in the music industry? We need it.

When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing.

But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.

The first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself