Adaptive Skills Quotes

Over my career, I've had to adjust my game.

I think sighted people let their eyes cheat them out of certain things. People who can see don't have a great sense of smell because they don't use it.

It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

I was born with a different physical capacity to other people.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

When I was in my third tour in Afghanistan, I was shot down. I was injured to the point where I couldn't fly anymore, so I looked into what ground jobs I could do that fulfilled me as an adrenaline junkie and, more importantly, utilized my experience.

I am used to being a winger, but if a manager wants me to adapt to a new position, then I will have to - and I don't mind.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.

I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by the wayside for a number of years.

A couple years in [to acting], I recognized that I developed methods from being a stuntwoman for so long that worked for me that I wasn't aware of. And I had to become aware of them, because I didn't recognize that I could actually apply them across the board.

I was determined to get back to my life. I had to relearn how to do everything. I had to learn how to talk, eat, move my arms.

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

It's different when your son is not typical, and you have to deal with him and handle him every single day.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

It's just as well I can sing as I couldn't do a factory job with all these physical limitations.

'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.

The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

There's no doubt about it: I think that my versatility helps me.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

I had a grandmother who was blind and she taught me to understand sound as an image.

I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or legs and yet did magic, and had 14 kids, and made the most extraordinary calligraphy.