Physically Disabled Quotes

• My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.

  Stephen Hawking

  Regret, People, Advice

  "Life and the Cosmos, Word by Painstaking Word". Interview with Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2011.

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• If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Encouraging, Uplifting, Hero

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

  Stephen Hawking

  Education, Science, People

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

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• Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

  Stephen Hawking

  Regret, Als, Spirit

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• If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.

  Stephen Hawking

  Wells, Disabled, Ifs

  "Handicapped People and Science" by Stephen Hawking, September, 1984.

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• I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt.

  Stephen Hawking

  Doubt, Genius, Should

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• I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

  Ian Mcewan

  Nuts, Painful, Paraplegics

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful.

  Anne Rice

  Hurt, Sorry, School

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Oct 28, 2011

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• It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Sympathy, Art, Growth

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