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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
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.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
A handicap is only if you let it be a handicap.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is 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.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
No opposing quotes found.