Quotes About Vulnerability

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.

Fear is where the information is.

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

Leadership is a dare - and the dare is, 'Are you willing to show up?'

Who are you and what breaks your heart?

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.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.

It's very different to live with a mask.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.