Richard Branson Quotes

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

One thing about mildly dyslexic people - they're good at setting everything else aside to pursue one goal.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

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 think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic when it came to reading and writing and processing that information.

When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.

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

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.

Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope.

I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.

Creativity comes from constraint.

If you have kids who are struggling with dyslexia, the greatest gift you can give them is the sense that nothing is unattainable. With dyslexia comes a very great gift, which is the way that your mind can think creatively.

Creativity is just connecting things.

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.