Tucker Max Quotes

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

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.

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.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

When I'm doing sports, I don't feel anything at all. I enjoy the moment. It's a safe haven. But once you try to let someone inside your soul, you become vulnerable. You have to be comfortable in your own skin. I don't open myself up like that to a lot of people. It takes courage.

You have to take a leap of faith before exposing yourself completely in terms of feelings and desires - especially if you're a woman.

If you're really gonna live, you have to be vulnerable.

Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it's also the most satisfying thing.

You don't often see vulnerability on TV, especially talk shows.

If I like a person, I don't have any mask/filter. I will open up a lot. I had hurt myself in the past because a couple of persons took advantage of me. I realised that they are not genuine people. Since then, I take time to open myself up for new people.

I think it's sort of rare in TV shows or movies to see people being vulnerable. That's sort of scary to an audience.

I don't really like being vulnerable.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.