I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
AIMEE MULLINSThe 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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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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