Dyslexic Quotes - Page 2

• If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Reading, Eye

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

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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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• 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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• The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Kids, Perception

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

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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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• 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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• 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 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 was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad. [But] if I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily. And I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Teacher, Hard Work

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

  David Bailey

  Idiot

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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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• 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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• 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, Dyslexia

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• Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Names, Hello, Call Me

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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• I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Dog, Lying

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

  Bella Thorne

  People, Challenges, Acting

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

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• Hi, well soon return you to the dyslexic production of Bitty Bitty Chang Chang.

  Colin Mochrie

  Return, Wells, Productions

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• Quick: noise made by a dyslexic duck

  Barry Cryer

  Ducks, Noise, Made

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• Unlikely things to see in a Valentine's card - "I may be dyslexic but that doesn't mean I don't vole you."

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Valentine, Humor

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• I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was young. His father was a playboy and a drunk. He was shifted around to many different homes. He knew he was a writer when he was about nine, but he was dyslexic. So here was a person with an absolutely messed-up childhood and a symptom that prevented him from doing what he wanted to do most. Yet that very symptom was part of the calling. It forced him to go deeper.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Father, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Artist, Photographer

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• My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

  Tom Cruise

  Lonely, Fun, Kids

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• I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree

  Joel McHale

  People, Dumb, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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