resilience Quotes

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

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.

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.