"Know me for my abilities, not my disability."

-- Robert M. Hensel

#Disability Quotes #Ability Quotes #Know Me Quotes

“There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.”
“the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.277, Cambridge University Press
“Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.”
“There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.”
“Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.”
“The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.”

Source : "Joseph Gordon-Levitt on 'The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories'". Interview with Yvonne Villarreal, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 5, 2011.
“Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.”
“The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.”

Source : David Allen (2008). “Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life”, p.197, Penguin

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