Vulnerable Quotes - Page 14

• You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.

  Bob Marley

  Love, True Friend, Real

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• Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

  John Piper

  Christian, Prayer, Neglect

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• I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

  Jayson Blair

  Clients, Process, Engaging

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• When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.

  Mark Webber

  Being Yourself, Real, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they're most fragile, where they're most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Thinking, Common Humanity

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• To force yourself out of the comfort zone, the main ingredient is trying to work in a world where you haven't been before, that you don't know the rules of. And that involves a lot of research, so you begin to see where the other people have been, but you are starting from as vulnerable and as low a point as possible.

  Danny Boyle

  People, Trying, Comfort

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try to find something in everyone that I play - even the most heinous ones. You have to find something that is real and vulnerable about everything that you play.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Real, Play, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It’s our imperfections that make us vulnerable, make us interesting. How can I make myself a bit of an asshole and still have humanity about it?

  Steve Coogan

  Interesting, Imperfection, Humanity

  Interview with Alfonso Cuarón, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2014.

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• If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most.

  Erica Brown

  What Matters, People, Lazy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The hardest thing in the world is to have a relationship, to be committed to one person and feel vulnerable. Recently one of my son's came to me and said ''it's hard for me to have a relationship, you and dad have been married three times each.''

  Pamela Anderson

  Dad, Son, Three

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think they're synonymous - that's when I feel the most afraid and disconnected and vulnerable. Like whenever I don't feel safe in my own hands, in terms of my not being tender or merciful with myself, or when we're treating each other that way.

  Alanis Morissette

  Hate, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Scary, Awful

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• It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.

  Amanda Palmer

  Asking, Easy, Asks

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• The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Government, Worry, Risk

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, April 17, 2007.

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• I think there are many experts who say, in fact, the most powerful nations on earth are more vulnerable today than the weaker nations because they're the targets of so many of these groups that are trying to steal, to buy, to build nuclear weapons.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Powerful, Thinking, Trying

  "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. April 18, 2010.

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• What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Speaking Up, Topics, May

  "May Cause Miracles | Author Gabrielle Bernstein Interview: Rachel P. Goldstein". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's easier to be more vulnerable in a smaller environment. It's hard to expect your actors to be able to open up in that way and stay with the level of focus needed when there's so many people on stage.

  Sadie Calvano

  People, Focus, Actors

  "Interview: ‘Mom’ star Sadie Calvano discusses CBS’ dramatic comedy". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. December 18, 2014.

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• For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

  Walton Goggins

  People, Violent, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Events, Comes And Goes

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• You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Darkness, Way

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

  Grace Jones

  Doors, Opening Up, Sides

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• Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.

  Dale Peck

  Powerful, Gay, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, I have having the time of my life playing this character [Louis Litt]. At times, it's unbelievably challenging and scary, when it comes to certain vulnerable areas that I don't necessarily want to go.

  Rick Hoffman

  Character, Scary, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• Because I'm fat, people believe I'm somehow vulnerable and easy to handle in a negotiation. Ever try to negotiate with a fat guy? We can be mean: Marvin Davis, Harvey Weinstein, Hermann Goering. No one screws around with us for long.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Believe, Mean, Long

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• Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

  Michael Schudson

  Character, Government, Age

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.16, Routledge

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