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.
AIMEE MULLINSI’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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