Best Vulnerability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 17

“For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.”

People Happens Used Violent Vulnerable Vulnerability Bad Things

Author:Walton Goggins

“A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.”

Victory Perfection Absolutes Warrior Vulnerability Peaceful Warrior Invulnerability

Author:Nick Nolte

“When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.”

Genre Vulnerability

Author:Jenny Hval

“On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.”

People Difficult Team Vulnerability

Book:Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

Source: Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

“Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.”

Different Character Government Age Groups Resources Claims Protection Advertising Vulnerable Consumers Vulnerability Guarantees Stations Quantity Vary Advertisements Consumer Protection

Book:Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society

Source: Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society

“In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.”

Partners Vulnerability Disguise Insecure

Book:Created for Connection: The

Source: Created for Connection: The

“Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.”

Shows Advice Judgment Sitting Dare Vulnerability Daring Sidelines Daring Greatly Hurling

Author:Brené Brown

“I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and I think that vulnerability makes people strong. My favorite performances or works of art are always people showing that side of themselves.”

People Thinking Writing Art Made Strong Felt Sides Performances My Favorite Vulnerable Journalist Vulnerability Works Of Art

Author:Tavi Gevinson

“If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.”

Ifs Trying Play Problem Force Causes Race Failing Errors Vulnerability Crush Braces

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.”

Poverty Vulnerability Isolation Humiliation No Money Mistrust

Author:Megan Lee

“Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.”

People Ifs Should Vulnerability Openness Going To Work Lulls

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“If it were possible to hold onto this sort of database and really be assured that only good guys get access to it, we might have a different discussion. Unfortunately, we don't know how to build systems that work that way. We don't know how to do this without creating a big target and a big vulnerability.”

Ifs Knows Way Different Bigs Might Guy Know How Creating Access Discussion Vulnerability Target Assured Good Guy Databases

Author:Matt Blaze

“It's fair to say that, by 'X-Men 3,' Wolverine had gone a little soft, and I agree with them there. What fans love about Wolverine is his more uncompromising approach to life. He is who he is. He's not always a nice guy. He has got edge. He's an anti-hero. And, there's also a vulnerability in there. There is conflict and battles going on in there.”

Men Littles Guy Gone Nice Fans Hero Battle Conflict Approach Fairs Agree Edges Vulnerability X Men Nice Guy Uncompromising Anti Hero

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Well, that's exactly the wrong attitude. That is not the attitude they had in World War II. You're attitude is that freedom means you can do whatever you want whenever you want it. And that sacrifice is somehow un-American. [...] But the idea that we should also be defensive about our flaws and our weaknesses and our vulnerabilities is ridiculous.”

World Want Should Wells Mean Ideas War Can Do Attitude Sacrifice Weakness Ridiculous War Of The Worlds Vulnerability Flaws World War Ii World War I Do Whatever You Want Wrong Attitude

Author:Bill Maher

“I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.”

Knows I Can Play Character Roles Greater Vulnerability

Author:Kari Matchett

“I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved.”

Roles Greater Involved Vulnerability Looking Forward

Author:Kari Matchett

“I love when you take bizarre, non-human things and somehow make them human or accessible. I think that's why I like the practical effects. You can look at a creature and still see vulnerability or the character behind the creature. To get character behind CG creatures, that's so few and far between.”

Thinking Humans Looks Stills Character Behinds Effects Creatures Practicals Vulnerability Bizarre

Author:Kevin Munroe

“I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.”

Trying Individual Attitude Groups Identity Vulnerability Paradox Gestures Concentrating Uniformity

Book:פרויקט יישרעלי

Source: פרויקט יישרעלי

“I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.”

Thinking Way Believe Difficult Effort Cameras Despite Vulnerable One Way Vulnerability Portraits Indication Presenting Best Effort

Author:Katy Grannan

“We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are.”

Kind Young Hell Who You Are Vulnerability Young Women Nurture Appreciated Being A Woman Women Strength

Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.”

People Way Writing Real Character Stories Use Voice Honesty Intimate Vulnerability Closeness Likeable

Author:Katherine Center

“Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.”

Understanding Weakness Vulnerability Faculty

Author:David Whyte

“Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.”

Joy Creativity Struggle Shame Core Vulnerability Belonging Worthiness Birthplace

Author:Brené Brown

“I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.”

Becoming Vulnerability

Author:Jewel

“The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.”

Secret Talking Loneliness Shame Vulnerability Hopelessness Antidote

Author:Jewel

“I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.”

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Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state of Louisiana, during the Gulf oil spill disaster, and witnessed mass devastation to every demonstration of life surrounding me - from grass, trees, bayous, insects, to animals and people - we all felt demolished.”

“I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.”

Years I Can Spiritual Practice Study Meditation Emotional Surface Therapy Vulnerability Components Analytics Meditation Practice

Author:Moby

“One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.”

Self Spiritual Goal Simple Practice Awareness Emotional Tools Self Awareness Vulnerability Spiritual Practice

Author:Moby

“I could experience vulnerability if I just constantly gave myself away without ever taking time out once a day or a couple times a day or whatever it is I need to restore, whether it's more sleep, or whether it's going to see a movie or writing something new.”

Ifs Needs Writing Sleep Couple Vulnerability Something New Take Time

Author:Jason Mraz

“I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.”

Giving Vulnerability

Author:Jason Mraz

“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.”

People Thinking Shows Song Enjoy Knowing Stage Right Now Elements Happenings Hearing Hopefully Vulnerability Accomplished Connecting Transparency

Author:Jason Mraz

“Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.”

Humans Human Beings Middle Expression Right Now Happenings Obvious Vulnerability Fragile Connecting

Author:Jason Mraz

“I think vulnerability is one of the most amazing things about music.”

Thinking Vulnerability Amazing Things Most Amazing

Author:SonReal

“I guess sacrifice inspires my vulnerability, sacrifice and just having good people around me.”

People Sacrifice Inspire Vulnerability Good People

Author:SonReal

“Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.”

Real Built Connections Hot Blow Divorce Vulnerability Cheat Wire Bikinis Real Connection

Author:Brené Brown

“Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In embracing such 'frontier' values, we may become intolerant of human wholeness, contemptuous of anything in ourselves, and in others, that has needs or is capable of suffering. The denial of a vulnerability is the ultimate barrier to compassion.”

“Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.”

Creativity Absolutes Innovation Vulnerability Zero Heartbeat Creativity And Innovation

Author:Brené Brown

“I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.”

“Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.”

“The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.”

Way War Mistake Terrible Vote Clinton Iraq Supposed To Be Irony Vulnerability Iraq War Auras

Author:Joe Conason

“Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.”

Humans Vulnerable Vulnerability Bad Things

Author:Benjamin Stone

“If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.”

Ifs Vulnerability Truthful Being Truthful

Author:Benjamin Stone

“We have to try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes. We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down. This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone. And if we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.”

Ifs World Trying Persons Sometimes Matter Difficult Picks Embrace Partners This Life Vulnerability Insecurity

Author:Joshua Radin

“I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. Sometimes hard young men would reveal vulnerability and a softer side. In the case of teenage girls, I often got a fascinating glimpse of the woman inside.”

Men Way Looks Sometimes Hard Eye Young Girl Sides Interesting Cases Cameras Young Man Vulnerability Fascinating Teenage Glimpse Teenage Girl Proxy

Author:Derek Ridgers

“My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.”

Beautiful My Family Vulnerability Tense Stressed Really Beautiful Stressed Out

Author:Jill Soloway

“By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.”

Vulnerability Recognizing

Author:Jill Soloway

“I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.”

Ifs Thinking Different Whole Stories Joy Song Energy Speak Fun Our Lives Failing New York Sensuality Vulnerability Different Things Moths

Author:Caroline Polachek

“Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.”

Process Levels Accepting Vulnerable Intimacy Vulnerability Allowing Ongoing Being In Love Transparent Exposing

Author:Danielle Cormack

“When you have children, it's like having your heart beating outside your chest. You can drive yourself crazy wanting to protect them and make sure that nothing harms them. It's a feeling of vulnerability that you can't get around sometimes.”

Heart Children Sometimes Feelings Crazy Protect Harm Vulnerability Chests Heart Beat Heart Beating

Author:Kevin Griffin

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