Vulnerable Quotes - Page 34

• I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

  Michel Gondry

  Nice, Thinking, Cynical

  "How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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• We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always – as Paul puts it in one of his letters – bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Book, Misunderstood

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• While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

  Eliot Engel

  Islands, Years, Political

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• Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Frustration, Organization, Poverty

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• We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

  Brené Brown

  Fun, People, Judging

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• Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Mean

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.240, Penguin

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• Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Space, Feelings

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• Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of
  worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection
  to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and
  how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking,
  Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t
  change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Morning, Mean

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

  Meredith Brooks

  Voice, Putting Yourself Out There

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• That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

  Julian Assange

  Crush, Creating, People

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs': 'I Enjoy Crushing Bastards'". Interview to Spiegel, www.commondreams.org. July 26, 2010.

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• If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

  Michael Schenker

  Sweet, Rip, People

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• I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

  Chuck Robb

  Men, Married, Circumstances

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• In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Thinking, Brave

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• If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Organization, Causes, Enough

  "On the Offensive Against an Array of Suspected Foes" by Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos, www.latimes.com. June 29, 1990.

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• The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

  Heather O'Neill

  Stars, Sky, Black

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• I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations.

  Marc Faber

  Thinking, Land, Groups

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• The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.

  Ben Bova

  Strong, Stars, Sea

  Ben Bova (2008). “Mars Life”, p.313, Macmillan

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• It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

  Florence Welch

  People, Intimacy, Grandeur

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• The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Europe, Middle East, Groups

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• People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis. The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world.

  Ted Simon

  Journey, Goal, People

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• Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences—and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn’t connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.

  Atom Egoyan

  Energy, Film, Reason

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission's work and use it to make certain that such horrific attacks never occur again.

  Lane Evans

  Moving, Use, Certain

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• If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Past, Opportunity, Thinking

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.249, Random House

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• Happiness is about being proud of who you are. Be a good friend, be a good daughter, be reliable, be willing to laugh when things get tough, compliment other girls, care about your job, believe in yourself, be vulnerable, tell the truth, apologize when needed, forgive people...

  Erin Foster

  Girl, Daughter, Jobs

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• When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

  Sally Kirkland

  Beautiful, Stars, Giving Up

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