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.
AIMEE MULLINSThe 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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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 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.
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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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