W. Mitchell > Quotes

“What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can't do and how there's not enough time in which to do it, isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it.”
― W. Mitchell

“It doesn' matter what happens to you, just what you do with what happens to you!”
― W. Mitchell - from the National Speakers Associations he was burned over 65 of his body in a motorcy

“Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.”
― W. Mitchell - from the National Speakers Associations he was burned over 65 of his body in a motorcy

“landscape … always greets us as a space, as environment, as that within which "we" (figured as "the figures" in the landscape) find - or lose - ourselves … An account of landscape … has to trace the process by which landscape effaces its own readability and naturalizes itself and must understand that process in relation to what might be called "the natural histories" of its own beholders. What we have done and are doing to our environment, what the environment in turn does to us…”
― W. Mitchell