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Quotes by Michael J. Fox
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I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'.
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.
Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.
I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.
Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.
When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.
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