Gavin Newsom Quotes

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.

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 don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

I didn't know anything was wrong with me when I was growing up. I thought everyone went to occupational and speech therapy, I thought these were common things. I thought I was quite normal until I went to school and someone told me it wasn't normal to have a disability.

Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

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

It's very important that we do show appreciation for those who go to work in raising awareness. You know, Tourette Syndrome is not well known. There's not a lot of government money and research in it. But people are dying inside every day because they're suffering with it, and I think word needs to get out.

Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.

What we want is that one day every workplace will be diverse - we already encourage that with gender and ethnicity, but the next frontier is neurodiversity and it will become ordinary. People won't think twice about it.

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!

I was quite disruptive and out there. Then I found myself in a load of remedial classes being told how to use a ruler. But when they tested my IQ, they found out I was quite intelligent.

Both my sons are dyslexic, and so, too, in a much milder form, is one of my daughters.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

I have an older brother who has autism - James.

Growing up with dyslexia and struggling in the classroom because of it, I know how infuriating and frustrating it can be to be treated wrongly as though you're of below par intelligence.

My heart goes out to any parents who are being led to believe their kids have a disorder or are disabled.

I wasn't stupid, or very smart. I didn't finish my education.

I know I'm not smarter than a 10-year-old.

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

I was a smart kid.

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.