Dyslexic Quotes

• Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others.

  Richard Branson

  People, World, Helping

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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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 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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• 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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• 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, 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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• I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.

  Cher

  School, Class, Listening

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• The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

  Magic Johnson

  Looks, Dyslexia, Staring

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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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• You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Skills, Scientist, Should

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• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

  Ashley Scott

  School, Hard Times, Active

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

  David Foster Wallace

  Dog, Night, Giving

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• I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

  Richard Branson

  School, Years, Understanding

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• Since I was the stupidest kid in my class, it never occurred to me to try and be perfect, so I've always been happy as a writer just to entertain myself. That's an easier place to start.

  Stephen J. Cannell

  Kids, Class, Perfect

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• My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

  William Butler Yeats

  Teacher, Father, Book

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

  Bruce Jenner

  School, Helping, Disability

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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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• 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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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Agnostic, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

  David Bailey

  Silly, School, Class

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• I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

  James Van Der Beek

  Strong, Math, Suits

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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 wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

  Jean Dujardin

  Daydreaming, My Time

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

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