Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

You don't need to be criticised to play well or things like that.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.'

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

If anyone says you are bad, this mean he wants you to be good, and I am here to be good, and I want to be good. If they say I have done bad, then they should also give me a chance to change myself for good.

Even just a little bit of praise can weaken you.

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.