Ability Quote by Chuck Close Download Open image “I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.” — Chuck Close ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Doing me Education Thinking
There weren't any other disabled people at my secondary school, so it was quite weird to find myself pigeonholing myself as disabled... and I… — Alex Brooker Copy Share Image
Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
“Or maybe in school you didn’t learn as quickly as you thought other kids did, and rather than considering the idea that you had… — Anthony Robbins Copy Share Image
I just think there was a time when the good thing about being disabled was you got out of stuff. — Alex Brooker Copy Share Image
I feel that because I'm disabled, I can say a lot more things than able people perhaps couldn't get away with. — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability. — John H. Johnson Copy Share Image
As I get older and mature and see the world, I think it's really rewarding to have people take inspiration - I hate the… — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's… — Simi Linton Copy Share Image
I don't feel disabled, and I think everybody makes their own way in life. — Verne Troyer Copy Share Image
When you're growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it. — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image