Vulnerability Quotes - Page 13

• 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.

  Moby

  Spiritual, Emotional, Meditation Practice

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• Why do leaders fail? Isolation and inability to learn. They are afraid to express doubt, admit vulnerability or seek advice from subordinates. Leaders must actively work to seek feedback and a reality check. They must be open to asking questions and framing issues. As the world becomes more complex and global, the risk of isolation becomes greater. The need for leaders to be open to learning becomes greater. Great leaders will need to ask the right questions and balance inquiry with advocacy.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Reality, Leader, Advice

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think vulnerability and sensuality, they're sides of the same coin.

  Rene Marie

  Thinking, Coins, Sides

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Exporters monitor economic and political policies to the developing world, but the consequences of that have been to make developing countries far more sensitive to the constant fluctuations. Developing countries are not always allowed to support their farmers in the same way as the U.S. or Europe is. They're not allowed to have tariff barriers. They're forced, more or less, to shrink their social programs. The very poorest people have fewer and fewer entitlements. The consequence of this has been that there's been a chronic increase in the vulnerability of those economies to price shocks.

  Raj Patel

  Country, People, Political

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• Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."

  Betsy Landin

  Dream, Book, Fall

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Jill Soloway

  Beautiful, Stressed, My Family

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The fourth doorway is the Doorway of Openness located in our heart center. It has to do with being open to both giving and receiving love. It's not just about being able to give, but it's also about the ability to be open to receive. There's a certain vulnerability in receiving. When we truly take in and appreciate all of the gifts of life, then our hearts are truly open in love.

  Marci Shimoff

  Heart, Receiving Love, Giving

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• When a house is tottering to its fall,
  The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
  One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
  And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

  Ovid

  Lying, Fall, House

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• Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.

  Anthony Giddens

  Fall, Mean, Independent

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.140, John Wiley & Sons

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• This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Impact, Climate

  "U.S. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds, Citing Heat and Floods". Interview with Al Roker, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 2014.

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• What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Sports, Gymnastics, Thinking

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• It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Fall, Talking, Worry

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• The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

  Richard Perle

  War, Citizens, Lax

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.82, Random House

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• It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Mother, Sweet, Nice

  "'Twilight' Actress Elizabeth Reaser Says She's 'Nothing Like' Esme Cullen". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, Brother, Emotional

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• I am never home, and it's hard to keep up with things that are good for you to have in life like relationships, whether they be romantic or friendship. I have to work twice as hard to make sure I don't just check out. That's what I mean by vulnerability.

  Jen Kirkman

  Home, Mean, Checks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all creation. It’s made. It’s not a given.

  Thomas Struth

  Judging, Soul, Body

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• I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

  Dick Cavett

  Loss, Losing, Problem

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.77, Macmillan

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• There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we "should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge." It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, Grief, Extraordinary Moments

  "Judith Butler". Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.

  Stan Lee

  Powerful, Writing, Character

  Stan Lee, Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra, Ashwin Pande, Dean Trippe (2015). “Stan Lee's Chakra The Invincible Free Comic Book Day Special 2015”, p.10, Graphic India

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• Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

  Brené Brown

  Magic, Together, Glue

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• I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.

  Irwin Kula

  Logic, Belief, Purity

  "More Than Our Beliefs" by Rabbi Irwin Kula, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Not being in touch with your vulnerability and not learning to own it and accept it and be comfortable with it leaves you in a position where you're liable to look at and judge other people for being vulnerable because they're reflecting that part of yourself that you're not comfortable with.

  Shakti Gawain

  People, Judging, Looks

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time.

  Shakti Gawain

  Powerful, Humans, Human Beings

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

  Brené Brown

  Powerful, Example, Intimacy

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.91, Penguin

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