Quotes About Vulnerability

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

Being robbed hurts - not physically, but from what it does to your pride.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don't know why I equate being brave with fighting.

I don't ever assume that people are going to love or appreciate what I do. It would be great. I don't assume that they're not going to. I just am like, 'I'm going to do my absolute best at everything I do, and I'm going to put it out with pride and hope people enjoy it.'

I put myself out there, trying to prove that beauty is beyond size. It was risky, sure, but what I risked in terms of personal pride was nothing in comparison to what I was rewarded in terms of personal fulfillment.

If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.

Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul.

Fear is ubiquitous in human life. It starts in infancy with our primal state of helplessness, where we can see what's going on but we can't move to get it. As we grow older we become a little more able to get what we want but then we're going to die so that gives fear another boost.

There's a feeling of invincibility that comes with being young, with being fit and in the prime of your life. But I learned when I was in the Marines just like I've learned as a UFC fighter that no one is invincible, and that you have to project yourself at all times.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human.

Frankly, I wasn't comfortable with the idea of showing my private life to the public.