Invulnerability Quotes

• A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Sleep, Greatness

  "The Satanic Verses". Book by Salman Rushdie, September, 1988.

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• There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.

  Louise Dickinson Rich

  Giving, People, Wish

  Louise Dickinson Rich (1963). “The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods”

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• Recuerda que el trabajo en equipo empieza por generar confianza. Y la única forma de hacerlo es superar nuestra necesidad de invulnerabilidad.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Inspiración, motivación, inspiración

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). "Las cinco disfunciones de un equipo: A Leadership Fable", p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• El hombre corriente es tan valiente e invulnerable como un héroe cuando no reconoce ningún peligro, cuando no tiene ojos para verlo.Por el contrario, el único punto vulnerable del héroe está en su espalda, y por tanto exactamente donde no tiene ojos.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Hero, Eye

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• Todavía no has abierto tu corazón completamente, a la vida, a cada momento. El camino del guerrero pacífico no consiste en la invulnerabilidad, sino en la vulnerabilidad absoluta ante el mundo, ante la vida y ante la Presencia que sientes. Durante todo este tiempo te he mostrado con el ejemplo que la vida de un guerrero no consiste en imaginar la perfección o la victoria, sino en el amor. El amor es la espada del guerrero; allí donde corta, da vida, no muerte.

  Dan Millman

  Corazón, Guerrero, Corte

  Dan Millman (2006). "El camino del guerrero pacífico: Un libro que cambia vidas", p.178, H J Kramer

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• Cuando la política y la religión se entremezclan, un pueblo se impregna de un sentimiento de invulnerabilidad y, al acelerar su marcha, no ve el precipicio que se abre ante él.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Gathering, Cliffs

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• La mayoría de nosotros nos escondemos detrás de prejuicios egocéntricos que generan la ilusión de que somos especiales. Estos escudos protectores que nos sirven a nosotros mismos nos permiten creer que cada uno de nosotros está por encima de la media en cualquier prueba de autointegridad. Con demasiada frecuencia miramos a las estrellas a través de la gruesa lente de la invulnerabilidad personal, cuando también deberíamos mirar hacia abajo, hacia la resbaladiza pendiente que hay bajo nuestros pies.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Stars, Integrity, Believe

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• Un trozo de sencilla bondad, una carta que brota del corazón, una hermosa vindicación no estudiada del valor y la dulzura incansable de la naturaleza humana, un registro de la invulnerabilidad del hombre, armado con un alto propósito, santificado por la verdad.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Beautiful, Heart, Simple

  Douglas William Jerrold (1853). “Punch's letters to his son, Punch's complete letter writer, and Sketches of the English”, p.211

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• The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman - who is only a mere superhero.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Superhero, Police, Vision

  "Superhero Bias" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. December 1, 2007.

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• A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

  Nick Nolte

  Warrior, Perfection, Victory

  "Fictional character: Socrates". "Peaceful Warrior", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Winning, Facts, Contests

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• No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

  Arno Gruen

  Matter, Relationships With Others, Becoming

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• When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have. People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Giving Up, Talking

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• De hecho, Bill Clinton es un excelente ejemplo de lo que debería hacer cuando se da cuenta de que no es invulnerable. Se dio cuenta de dos cosas: su invulnerabilidad estaba contextualizada en dos cosas: comida basura, y tenía un problema con cierto tipo de mujeres.

  Walter Mischel

  Two, Example, Bills

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Successful, Careers

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• Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Carácter, Lucha, Ser

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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