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“When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.”

Source: The Power of Focus Tenth Anniversary Edition: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Confidence and Certainty

“As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.”

Long Self Natural Chance Planets Huge Walking Moon Species Vulnerable Leap Catastrophe Extinction Star Gazing

Author:David Grinspoon

“When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.”

Pain Compassion Risk Willing Wake Up Vulnerable Entering

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation. But I feel ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy. Out of love and concern, friends and family give all the reasons or objections on why [you] shouldn't do it. I didn't want to risk that.”

Want Giving Feels Ideas Reason Wife Risk Husband Concern Vulnerable Family And Friends Objections Infancy Validation Coworker

Author:Sara Blakely

“I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.”

Thinking Way Firsts First Time Vulnerable

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.”

People Thinking Want Feels Mean Hard Facts Support Taken Advantage Vulnerable Data Staying Smarter Taken Advantage Motels

Author:Tom Bodett

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.”

People Groups Speech Vulnerable Vanity

Author:David Frum

“I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.”

People Thinking Imagine Vulnerable

Author:Vincent Cassel

“The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.”

Feels Song Vulnerable Fearless

Author:Deana Carter

“I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.”

Thinking Law Successful Groups Jew Vulnerable Gifted Rule Of Law Differentiate Paramount

Author:Louis Begley

“The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.”

People Jobs Suffering Terrible Vulnerable Our Society Joblessness Plight

Author:Tim Bishop

“In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.”

Facts Finals Terror Proof Vulnerable Analysis Superpower

Author:Ulrich Beck

“I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.”

People Thinking I Can Tough Handle Vulnerable

Author:Yancy Butler

“I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.”

People Ifs Knows Want Different Strong Can Do Possibility Offers Increase Vulnerable Nationality Crooked Demented Different Nationalities

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.”

Fighting Type Extremes Vulnerable

Author:Gina Carano

“There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.”

People Courses Left Economy Masters Majors Crisis Property Financial Debt Vulnerable Servant Britain Labour Bubbles Banking Predecessors Financial Crisis Banking Crisis

Author:Vince Cable

“We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.”

People Needs Thirds Population Humanitarian Access Vulnerable Agency Darfur

Author:Jan Egeland

“While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.”

World Writing Mind Two Cold Mountain Clever Vulnerable Landscape Climbs Maps Southern Geography Carolina North Carolina Two Worlds Appalachia Folktales Cold Mountain

Author:Charles Frazier

“There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, I mean, it's a really vulnerable place to be in. It's a huge thing to do.”

Thinking World Enough Fantasy Records Rocks Huge Musician Vulnerable Things To Do Enough Time

Author:Ryan Adams

“All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.”

Art Made Self Artist Risk Amount Art Is Defense Vulnerable Plenty Mechanism Gestures Self Defense Small Amounts No Sympathy Defense Mechanisms

Author:Steven Erikson

“I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.”

May Whole Feelings School Gone High School Vulnerable Confused Adolescence

Author:Michael Cera

“Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.”

Ifs Feels Said Used Voice Instance Vulnerable Wrong Words

Author:Carrie Ann Inaba

“It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.”

Hate Difficult Honest Vulnerable

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.”

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