Adam Neumann Quotes

I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

Ozzy has dyslexia.

It's an individual waste and it's an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia.

I'm a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.

Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in the world, major owners of companies, are dyslexic. We just see things differently, so that's an advantage. I just learn a different way; there's nothing bad about it.

When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it's the way their brain is programmed, and it's not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.

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.

My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.

I feel dyslexia is a strong point in me now. I usually joke that it's like a superpower - you only have it if you've got it!

My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.

The more we learn about dyslexia, the more able we will be to help those with it.

So my dyslexia has got me into trouble, but I feel I can talk about it because I want to say to everyone who is dyslexic that the technology exists to help. The most important thing was being diagnosed.

I've got dyslexia. When I was in school, it wasn't really recognized as much as it is today; I'm really glad that people are a lot more aware of it now.

I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.

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 nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease.

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.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

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.

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

I want people to know that you can have dyslexia and still reach your goals.