I framed my own mind and limitations when I told myself I couldn't achieve goals--from sports to certain academic subjects to being a leader.
These Paralympics were bigger than any one individual, and when I think back on these Games the image that will be permanently framed in my mind won't be of how I performed on the track, but of the advancement of the Paralympic movement.
"Certainly that's how it was framed in my mind in 2003.
I've never seen a stage production, but I need no technological assistance to replay the movie version, frame by frame, in my mind.
Here is Eli, about to shoot a man: "My very center was beginning to expand, as it always did before violence, a toppled pot of black ink covering the frame of my mind, its contents ceaseless, unaccountably limitless.
Here he is about to confront his prey: "My very centre was beginning to expand, as it always did before violence, a toppled pot of black ink covering the frame of my mind, its contents ceaseless, unaccountably limitless.
I've usually got the concept and frame in my mind, and I'll execute it.
He composed words "without a pen in my hand, framing a sentence in my mind, often losing the beginning as I reached the end, and only when the thing was secure and complete would I set it down.
"During our visit, my mind frame was not in prison at all," he explained.
I look back on it now and my mind frame was the cause of things that didn't even exist".
