Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
AIMEE MULLINSIt’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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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 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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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