There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
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A handicap is only if you let it be a handicap.
People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.
I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.
People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.