Speech Excerpts

“If you don’t have a dream, go get one. Write it down anywhere, on a small piece of paper or in your notebook. Just write it down, look at it everyday, and remind yourself what you are working towards.”

“Your perception of any challenge is important. It determines your attitude, and attitude determines response. How you perceive a problem will determine what you choose to do about it.”

“What is possible is directly related to your belief system; you have to believe it, dream it, visualize it, and then, like magic you start to come up with ways to make it reality.”

“Because of my vision impairment, I have to do things differently. Just to get through everyday life, I have to be a creative problem solver. There is more than one way of accomplishing a given task.”

“To move forward in life, I have to accept that I can not do things the same way as a person with normal sight. I remind myself, ‘I can do that, but I have to do it differently’.”

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