Quotes About Vulnerability

We're defenseless, I know we play defense, but we're defenseless when we're not looking at the guy who's blocking us or when the guy's come out and cut out our knees from underneath us.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated 'Proof' in the early 1990s, Mr. Crowe is given to a hurt swallow when he's uncomfortable and to a look of suffering in his eyes.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.

It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard.

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

Even close people left me - I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

I think that the general public understands that its own doctors are human, fallible, and flawed.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?

If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations.

When you're underwater getting pounded, you are at the mercy of the ocean.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

For me, it feels empowering to walk down a runway in my underwear!

I was an underwear model for Calvin Klein for a few years. It is not something I wanted to do at first. I never regretted it, but I am a shy person, and to stand there buck naked in front of a camera was scary.

Who hasn't had the 'I went to school/work in my underwear' dream?