Vulnerability Quotes - Page 5

• I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.

  Peter Block

  Leadership, Party, Agreement

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• I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Overcoming, Care

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.251, Penguin

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• I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

  Lenny Jacobson

  Thinking, Trying, Negative

  "Actor Lenny Jacobson: On getting in the zone, vulnerability, and preferring chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

  Tori Amos

  Empowering, Storyteller, Songwriters

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• If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

  Tori Amos

  Song, Dna, Order

  "Tori Amos Interview by Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I honestly think vulnerability is a beautiful thing: it's tenderness, authenticity, and risk-taking. It means you're living a life where the stakes are high and you are continuing to push your own boundaries and learn new things. It keeps you flexible and young.

  Jaime Murray

  Beautiful, Mean, Thinking

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Fear is vulnerability's ugly little sister.

  Jaime Murray

  Little Sister, Ugly, Littles

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Faces, Share, Constant

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from May 17, 2016

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• I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

  Michael Patrick King

  Diversity, Emotion, Enjoy

  "Writer/Director Michael Patrick King Interview SEX AND THE CITY 2 – And The Plot is Revealed!". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

  Hedi Slimane

  Sex, Romance, Sometimes

  "Hedi Slimane Interview: 'California Song' at MOCA Los Angeles". Interview with Isabel Wilkinson, www.thedailybeast.com. January 20, 2012.

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• I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Character, Dull

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• Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

  Brené Brown

  Trying, Littles, Vulnerable

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Mean, Desire

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.127, M-y books ltd

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• I do think vulnerability is a virtue.

  Raul Castillo

  Thinking, Virtue

  "Looking Actor Raúl Castillo: Telling Human Stories". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

  Damian Kulash

  Self, Criticism, Vulnerable

  "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

  Mpho Koaho

  Feelings, Actors, Putting Yourself Out There

  "Actor Mpho Koaho: The vulnerable nature of acting, investing in youth programs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear.

  John Rzeznik

  Guy

  "John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Without vulnerability, you're not really alive.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Alive

  "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• Your vulnerability is your power.

  Daphne Zuniga

  "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.

  Kim Wilde

  Mean, Blonde, Eighty

  Clothes Show magazine, March 1989.

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• Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.

  Bryan Fuller

  Interesting, Roles, Actresses

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• At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

  Wietse Venema

  Respect, Years, Two

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• Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

  Zach Wamp

  Courage, Grateful, Sacrifice

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• I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

  Michael Zaslow

  Sexy, Thinking, Way

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