Quotes About Impairment

#1. Neurology's favourite word is 'deficit', denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties).

Oliver Sacks

#2. Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment.

William C. Dement

#3. Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#4. The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.

William O. Douglas

#5. I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

Albert Einstein

#6. Low amounts of vitamin B12 with normal folate levels may cause cognitive impairment and anemia, while high amounts of folate and normal vitamin B12 levels may improve cognitive function (132).

Orrin Devinsky

#7. Well, he was wearing those really bad pants ant that awful shirt. Clearly he did need some things explained to him bya teenager, but i didn't think it was the right time to mention his unforunate and obvious fashion impairment.

P.C. Cast

#8. More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.

William J. Brennan

#9. I want to be back to work next week.
'Let's get you home first. I need to evaluate the extent of your mental impairment.' She tried to flash me the peace sign, but in her weakend condition, she only managed to raise her middle finger.

Nelson DeMille

#10. In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly disabled at all. I still have an impairment, and there are obviously some very restrictive things about that, but the impact of disability is less.

Stella Young

#11. Impairment of fertility in both men and women because of hypothyroidism is firmly entrenched in medical literature ... Miscarriage and fertility problems are a red flag for hypothyroidism.

Mark Starr

#12. Italian researchers, for another example, have demonstrated that in elderly individuals suffering from mild cognitive impairment, those who consumed the highest level of flavonoids from cocoa and chocolate improved their insulin sensitivity and blood pressure significantly.

David Perlmutter

#13. There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

Jules Romains

#14. Let me make this clear: my impairment is such that without a wheelchair, I can't do very much for myself. I can't get out of bed. I can't get myself to the toilet. I certainly can't get myself to work.

Stella Young

#15. Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.

Stephen L. Richards

#16. metabolic impairment can also cause decreased appetite or an absence of appetite. Patients with this kind of metabolic issue tend to struggle with making food choices, either having trouble deciding between foods or feeling that nothing looks good.

Emily Cooper

#17. In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.

Stella Young

#18. Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

#19. For me, Warhol made so much sense.

Raf Simons

#20. The multiverse model offers an elegantly postmodern solution to character stasis in a market-driven serial publishing system which privileges constancy over major change.

Jose Alaniz

#21. var says, "Let the compiler figure out the type." dynamic says, "Let the runtime figure out the type.

Joseph Albahari

#22. The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.

Jesse Owens

#23. When life's got you down, keep your head up ... you can't see the ground anyway

Nicole Rae

#24. Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

Larry Merchant

#25. For pleasures past I do not grieve, Nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear.

George Gordon Byron

#26. Sympathy once more reveals its limits when faced with madness.

Jose Alaniz

#27. [In "The Night Gwen Stacy Died"], death took on an existential quality -- the beloved, innocent but weak Gwen is merely a victim, the casualty of a war between superpowered rivals -- and as such the episode proved a turning point int eh genre's depiction of mortality.

Jose Alaniz

#28. Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

Stephen Leacock

#29. None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.

Colin Marston

#30. Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

Baal Shem Tov

#31. I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

Eric Bogosian

#32. If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view

Harvey MacKay

#33. The stereotype of the supercrip, in the eyes of its critics, represents a sort of overachieving, overdetermined self-enfreakment that distracts from the lived daily reality of most disabled people.

Jose Alaniz