Quotes About Vulnerability

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

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.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.