J.J. Brown Quotes

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.

Lean into the discomfort of the work.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

There are infinite numbers of do overs for your teen girls.

Unused creativity is not benign.

What's worth doing even if you fail?

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones.

Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

Hope is really a thought.

I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing.

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.

There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.

You can't be everything for another person.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

The best blowjobs I've had have been from prostitutes.

Trying to get your sexual partner to make a monogamous commitment to you is not a loving thing to do; it's selfish.

I was seeing indoor workers as opposed to streetwalkers and from what I hear, drug use is much more prevalent among streetwalkers then it is with girls who are escorting.