Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
AIMEE MULLINSI haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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