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.
AIMEE MULLINSI have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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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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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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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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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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