Dyslexia Quotes

• Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia, or for anyone for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.

  Orlando Bloom

  Running, Children, Creativity

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• Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

  Orlando Bloom

  Needs, Information, Process

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• If you have kids who are struggling with dyslexia, the greatest gift you can give them is the sense that nothing is unattainable. With dyslexia comes a very great gift, which is the way that your mind can think creatively.

  Orlando Bloom

  Struggle, Kids, Thinking

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• You can be extremely bright and still have dyslexia. You just have to understand how you learn and how you process information. When you know that, you can overcome a lot of the obstacles that come with dyslexia. When you figure out how you learn, you can accomplish whatever you want.

  Tim Tebow

  Overcoming, Want, Information

  Source: espn.go.com

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• When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.

  Nolan Ryan

  Horror Stories, Embarrassing, Frustrating

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• When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Mother, Stupid, Kids

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• Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Dwelling, Imagination

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.

  Richard Rogers

  People, Important, Made

  "Building civilisation". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2006.

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• I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

  Winston Churchill

  School, Race, Discouraged

  "A Roving Commission".

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• I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Letters, Originality

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• Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw.

  James Redford

  Character, Issues, Flaws

  " 20 Must-See Docs Making Their TV Premieres This October" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

  Tom Cruise

  Order, Focus, Attention

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• I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

  Robert Benton

  Thinking, Feelings, Awful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

  Joe Wright

  Writing, Thinking, Inability

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• I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

  Loretta Young

  School, Disability, Reason

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• I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sports, Exam

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.

  Bella Thorne

  Kids, Helping Others, Dyslexic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.

  William James

  Running, Eye, Order

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Kids made fun of me because I was dark skinned, had a wide nose, and was dyslexic. Even as an actor, it took me a long time to realize why words and letters got jumbled in my mind and came out differently.

  Danny Glover

  Fun, Kids, Dark

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• Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Kids, Scrabble

  "Eddie Izzard: Stripped". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

  Bella Thorne

  Reading, Class, Support

  "Meet Shake It Up's Bella Thorne!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2010.

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• I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Book, Tape, Classic

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• My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

  Max Brooks

  Coping Mechanisms, Use, Wit And Humor

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• As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

  Henry Winkler

  Children, Stupid, Math

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• I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

  Harry Belafonte

  School, West Indies, Students

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