Number was the substance of all things.
I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.
Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch. ' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
I'm a proud person who happens to be deaf. I don't want to change it. I don't want to wake up and suddenly say, 'Oh my God, I can hear. ' That's not my dream. It's not my dream. I've been raised deaf. I'm used to the way I am. I don't want to change it. Why would I ever want to change? Because I'm used to this, I'm happy.
You need emotional content.
Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World
Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.
Success is overrated.