Learning Disability Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood…
— Ann Bancroft
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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,…
— Chuck Close
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Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of…
— Chuck Close
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When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to…
— Tom Cruise
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,
— Laura Linney
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People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that…
— Randy Wayne
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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…
— Henry Winkler
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I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm…
— Chuck Close
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When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other…
— Willard Wigan
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So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially…
— Robert Sternberg
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Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer.…
— Paul A. Offit
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I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
— Roger Goodell
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I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I…
— Channing Tatum
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What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.
— John H. Johnson
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You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was…
— Matthew Lillard
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I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers…
— Andrew Greeley
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I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was…
— Sloane Crosley
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Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain…
— Christopher Eccleston
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The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I…
— Ron White
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It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the…
— John Irving
Who Wrote These Learning Disability Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Learning Disability Quotes as follows: