Showing Vulnerability Quotes

#1. My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

Anita Diament

#2. Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

Etgar Keret

#3. If we make it through this, we will be friends. Bonded by trauma.

Eoin Colfer

#4. I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.

Thomas Koerfer

#5. No man, unless he be dead in living, can feel at anchor in this life.

Rene Char

#6. Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I'm achieving some level of financial comfort here

Tony Elumelu

#7. No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Brene Brown

#9. He'd believed for a long time, deep down, that people didn't actually fall in love. That they were all faking it.

Amanda Palmer

#10. We know to much to command ourselves very far.

Julian Jaynes

#11. I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

Clint Eastwood

#12. The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability ... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.

Howard Schultz

#13. 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.

Brene Brown

#14. Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#15. You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

Kendrick Lamar

#16. I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and I think that vulnerability makes people strong. My favorite performances or works of art are always people showing that side of themselves.

Tavi Gevinson

#17. A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.

Francis Crick

#18. A perfect schedule is to be able to do something dark and then go into something lighter to ease up a little bit.

Malin Akerman

#19. So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

George Carlin

#20. Interview - two years of practicing being brave and putting myself out there - and vulnerability is still uncomfortable and falling still hurts. It always will. But I'm learning that the process of struggling and navigating hurt has as much to offer us as the process of being brave and showing up.

Brene Brown

#21. Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

Peter Kreeft

#22. Jack made a pass at me, too. He thought my riding crop was alluring until I smacked him across the face with it."
"Good Grief," I said. "Is any woman safe from him?
"If I were Horace Malvern," said Emma, "I'd hide the cows.

Nancy Atherton