Top 100 Quotes About Therapeutic
#1. What I do is more than just the clothes. It's getting out whatever is inside that's screaming the loudest. I wouldn't call it therapeutic. It's not that conscious.
Gareth Pugh
#2. Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.
Natalie Coughlin
#3. I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.
Shannon Hoon
#4. Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.
Deborah Eisenberg
#5. Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.
Philip Rieff
#6. I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.
Bella Heathcote
#7. I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.
Radha Mitchell
#8. In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
Hans Eysenck
#9. Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.
Dave Matthews
#10. I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#11. Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.
R.C. Sproul
#12. At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.
Sophie Calle
#13. There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
Charles Rosin
#14. I find vacuuming very therapeutic. I like the lines it makes on the carpet.
Christine Taylor
#15. WHILE MUSIC alone can unlock people with parkinsonism, and movement or exercise of any kind is also beneficial, an ideal combination of music and movement is provided by dance (and dancing with a partner, or in a social setting, brings to bear other therapeutic dimensions).
Oliver Sacks
#16. I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
Zadie Smith
#17. Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.
Adrian Tomine
#18. Emptiness and the not-"I" is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#19. I find DIY really therapeutic. I lose myself in it, because you can concentrate on the task and not think about all the other stuff going on in your life.
Andrea McLean
#20. By acquiring Biovex, we're continuing the transformation of Amgen into a company that supports therapeutic oncology as well as supportive care oncology.
Roger M. Perlmutter
#21. I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'
Paolo Bacigalupi
#22. TSX-002 will reinforce Aspen's pipeline, further bolstering its presence in a key therapeutic area for the Group. The registration of the product will allow Aspen the opportunity to develop the testosterone market in emerging markets.
Stephen Saad
#23. Laughter distances us from that which is ugly and therefore potentially distressing, and indeed enables us to obtain paradoxical pleasure and therapeutic benefit from it.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#24. Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.
Brie Larson
#25. The foremost of his therapeutic principles is that conscious realization is an important agent for transforming the personality. The
C. G. Jung
#26. As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.
Andrew Weil
#27. [T]he act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
Irvin D. Yalom
#28. I strongly recommend the therapeutic application of fuzzy-chested vampire to grief. It works miracles." "I am sincerely glad to hear that. But if you keep talking, I will poke your eyes out with a toothpick.
Chloe Neill
#29. I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.
Dave Grohl
#30. I love to sit down on a beanbag at the end of the day and watch my fish. It's therapeutic, isn't it? They're alive, and I'm keeping them alive. I like the responsibility.
Luke Evans
#31. There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!
Gerry Rafferty
#33. Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
Jeffrey Kluger
#34. Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.
Kevin Bacon
#35. There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.
Feng Zhang
#36. I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.
Warwick Davis
#37. Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
D.H. Lawrence
#38. I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
Iman
#39. The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.
Michiko Kakutani
#40. With therapeutic Qigong when there is no cure, there is palliation.
Chan Siok Fong
#41. It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic.
Stella Maeve
#42. Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they create a serious obstacle to the development of new therapeutic drugs.
Bernard Brodie
#43. There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of therapy.
David D. Burns
#44. Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.
Nick Robinson
#45. No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live.
Naomi Campbell
#46. I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally.
Kevin Gates
#47. There is something oddly therapeutic about trudging through marshy sand, the feeling of squishiness below the feet signaling to the brain that it's OK to just let go for a while.
Sarah Jio
#48. To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.
Jon Krakauer
#49. Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.
Choa Kok Sui
#50. Hopefully we are emerging from an era of fantasy explanations for real phenomena. The authors certainly have to face a community of therapists who are obsessionally committed to explanations for disease and for therapy unsupported by a scrap of evidence except for their claimed therapeutic success.
Patrick David Wall
#51. Moralistic, therapeutic deism is fine with sin hiding in a foxhole. The gospel wants to nuke the hole.
Matt Chandler
#52. Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene ... For me, it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.
Michael De Luca
#53. I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.
Jill Hennessy
#54. After all, many people came here for vaguely therapeutic reasons, believing there were medicines dispensed by the very mood of the town's quaint streets and its sea-licked shores.
Thomas Ligotti
#55. Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.
Michelle Obama
#56. I hate guns," replied the Doctor. "Which isn't to say that a bit of fantasy violence can't be therapeutic.
Jacqueline Rayner
#57. For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his fantasies by expressing them. Instead, by some perverse logic of creation, the act of formal expressions may simply make the dredged-up material more readily available to him.
Al Alvarez
#58. Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
#59. I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.
Mickey Rourke
#60. I try to run every time I'm in a new city or country - you just put your shoes on and go. It's very therapeutic, and it also works for me when I want to lose weight.
Eva Longoria
#61. Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.
Sophie Calle
#62. I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.
Helena Bonham Carter
#63. I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.
Troy Garity
#64. As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract reasoning skill.
Virgil Miller Newton
#65. It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.
Eva Longoria
#66. For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.
Charlie Bewley
#67. People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.
Caroline Myss
#69. My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula
#70. Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.
Bikram Choudhury
#71. Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.
Diane Kruger
#72. My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
Iman
#74. We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.
Thomas Szasz
#75. If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.
Jose Parla
#76. Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment ... o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.
Raymond Pettibon
#77. The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.
John Gurdon
#78. I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic.
Keeley Hawes
#79. I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.
Vin Diesel
#80. Some people paint for stress relief. Others beat the crap out of punching bags (which, I might add, is very therapeutic).
Christina Farley
#81. Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.
Lisa Marie Presley
#82. The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.
Gin Wigmore
#83. Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
Clive Anderson
#84. I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.
Marina Abramovic
#85. I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
Charlie Kaufman
#87. If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.
Luke Nosek
#88. Few see looking after others as therapeutic for the person who does the caretaking, or consider community involvement as therapeutic as drugs. Yet there is mounting evidence that a rich network of face-to-face relationships creates a biological force field against disease.
Susan Pinker
#90. Grills are how to achieve a great flavor on meats and vegetables. They bring people together. The smell of them getting started is therapeutic.
Chuck Inglish
#91. Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
George Bernard Shaw
#92. I'd say, for me, it's cooking that gives me a space beyond music. I love food. And somehow, music and food go together so well. Cooking is very therapeutic. That preparation, the fragrance of spices, the wafting aromas - it just sweeps aside my depression, tiredness and name what you may.
Shreya Ghoshal
#93. I swear there are about a million rocks underneath me," [Dylan] said grouchily.
Think of it as therapeutic. Like a shiatsu massage." (Sadie)
You obviously have a much better imagination than me," he said.
Sarah Mayberry
#94. Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?
Ken Kesey
#95. Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.
Jessica Lowndes
#96. Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#97. The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.
Albert Mohler
#98. There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good.
Annette Bening
#99. I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.
David Baltimore
#100. I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.
Rose Leslie
