Vulnerability Quotes

• People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.

  

  Alexandra Cassavetes
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The more comfortable men are with dealing with their own vulnerability and their own ideas of masculinity and feeling emasculated, the healthier they are. It's a healthy thing to deal with.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Men
  • Feeling
  • Vulnerability

• When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Stop
  • Connection

• Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Vulnerability

• For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way - or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.

  

  Agyness Deyn
  • Strong
  • Vulnerability

• Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Worst

• The things that churned inside Daredevil were deeply religious, somewhat guilt-driven traces of the messianic, with his powers being a compensation for and driven by the vulnerability of being blind. Green Arrow is not driven by dark forces.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Dark
  • Religious
  • Green

• Korean nationalism is its emphasis on the vulnerability of the race.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Vulnerability

• Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Risk
  • Emotional
  • Vulnerability

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

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Future
  • Roles
  • Forward

• All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.

  

  John Gerzema
  • Lies
  • Empathy
  • Vulnerability

• Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

  

  Brené Brown
  • Faith
  • Vulnerability

• The main threat to the South's security is the general lack of public identification with the ROK and its values, as opposed to any widespread vulnerability to the personality cult.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Personality
  • Vulnerability

• Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Experience
  • High
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Song

• I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Up
  • Vulnerability

• Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Political
  • Russia

• ...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Vulnerability
  • Syrup

• It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

  

  Mark Rydell
  • Men
  • Live
  • Strong

• Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Mind
  • Interesting
  • Criticism

• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Vulnerability

• Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Passion

• Young people don't seem to make a connection with the vulnerability that they can get into by posting themselves publicly.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • People
  • Connection
  • Vulnerability

• The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Trust
  • Connection
  • Intimacy

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