Vulnerable Quotes - Page 7

• As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Prepared, Allowing

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Work Out, Way, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into you every which way that you've got to get married and you've got to have babies. That you're not a natural woman if you don't. So that led to a lot of sitting by the telephone and waiting for a call. And that led you into a culture in which you were always in a subordinate position without realizing it; hamstrung, not able to take action. That was the most important thing: you were always waiting to be desired.

  Vivian Gornick

  Baby, Romantic Love, Waiting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• For me, being vulnerable is asking for help from other people whatever it may be.

  Mason Jennings

  Asking For Help, People, May

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements, and as conforming to white norms as much as possible. When these strategies are used, the most dangerous conditions and the people who are most vulnerable cannot be discussed or addressed.

  Dean Spade

  Hard Work, Organization, White

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves us away from some of the most common, obvious pitfalls of neoliberal social movement strategies.

  Dean Spade

  Moving, Commitment, Trying

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.

  Dan Mangan

  Book, Goal, Alive

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• My dissatisfaction with acting has nothing to do with being uncomfortable or vulnerable or feeling like people are going to criticize me. That's not the problem.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  People, Feelings, Acting

  Source: dishmag.com

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• Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• 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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• If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.

  Martha Beck

  Stress, Humanity, Energy

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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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• I feel things more deeply... anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life... Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.

  Ben Affleck

  Children, Kids, Differences

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think he was the first person to shoot prisoners of war so that he had food for his own army. He was absolutely single-minded but he also obviously had charm. How else could a man like him have come back as he did and have the nation rise to a man!

  David Suchet

  War, Army, Men

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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• They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.

  Anne Sexton

  Flower, Innocent, My Favorite

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.374, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thinking, Men, Political

  The Human Condition ch. 45 (1958)

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• Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?

  Haile Gerima

  Issues, People, Care

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Happiness, Real, Doe

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• Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

  Ellis Peters

  Heart, Quality, Youth

  Ellis Peters (2014). “An Excellent Mystery”, p.45, Head of Zeus

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• We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

  Han Suyin

  Our Time, Products

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• The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

  Storm Jameson

  Stuff, Youth, Young

  Storm Jameson (1933). “No time like the present”

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• In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

  Danny Silk

  Pain, Needs

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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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