There’s a vulnerability to our music that attracts people.
I think for me, the best comedy comes from when something feels real and genuine, so even though Miranda is this wacky character, there is a real vulnerability to her that we finally get to show in ‘Haters Back Off,’ and I think that’s what makes this comedy rich and more fulfilling, at least for me.
The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey’s delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
It’s true that robust governance structures, checks and balances, transparency of markets, directionally leads to… less vulnerability to corruption.
When I started to write ‘Hannah’s Child,’ I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.
Women’s vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women’s financial literacy is notably lower than men’s. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
I guess there’s a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.
I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.
I wish everybody in the world liked me, but a lot of them don’t. That’s because my whatever – my weakness, my vulnerability, my ego, whatever it is.
If you’re confident, then you don’t feel weird about showing your vulnerability and opening yourself up to learning from somebody else. Insecure people stay where they are because they’re afraid of admitting their weaknesses.
Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that’s exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.
There’s something very frightening about the vulnerability of mothers and babies.
Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us – in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.
There’s a lot of vulnerability in songs – I’m not talking about pop songs – from people that are in the art of songwriting more than the commercial enterprise of it.
We aren’t always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who don’t always do the wise thing.
Even criticism is more interesting when the writer’s authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring – that’s one of the most interesting possibilities.
I’ve DP’d so many films for first-time directors, and I know the trauma, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, how much you have to believe in the story.
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.
I have a million career weaknesses, and although it’s uncomfortable, I believe that authentically acknowledging and working through your vulnerability is more powerful than the delusion of perfection.
Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.
When you approach the world with such vulnerability and openness, people return that energy. It’s draining, but it fills me with a purpose. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
When I was younger, I used to say, ‘I’m not making music. I am getting catharsis for emotion.’ For me, vulnerability is an act of uncovering. It’s a revealing: the idea of putting aside your armour and allowing pain to enter.
Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.
Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.
There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That’s something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and – on a good day – like about myself.
Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It’s like we’re all in this boat together.
All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I’m deeply insecure – but I’m good at hiding it.
I’m a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don’t like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That’s what I want it to accomplish.
Vulnerability, humility, relatability – those three are very close and very similar to keep you going.
When we fall short of meeting community needs – for stable housing, safe streets, open space, reliable transportation, food access, a healthy environment – everyone faces greater vulnerability.
The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
If you’re not vulnerable, and you’re too headstrong and clear about the path you want to take, it won’t help you grow. Vulnerability doesn’t have to be a negative thing. If you take the right spin on it, it can be extremely positive.
Our consciousness wants to connect through struggle and even pain. So in a funny sort of way, vulnerability is attractive.
Honesty, vulnerability, pain – these are things that always supersede the trends of the day.
Generosity is as much showing your vulnerability as it is your passion for something.
Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He’s an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh’s vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in New Orleans.
I like to bring a level of vulnerability and real humanity to the characters I play when appropriate, and I feel like Dr. Culber lives pretty comfortably in that vulnerable world, but he’s a professional first.
It’s all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.
Daesh thought it could exploit the vulnerability of the Iraqi state, but it underestimated the overwhelming desire of the Iraqi people for unity.
The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.
Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.
America’s vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It’s the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
In the past, I have assumed the word ‘vulnerability’ equates with the word ‘weakness’ and ‘This Is Us’ shows us that it is in fact the opposite.
If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.
