Ron White Quotes

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

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 a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

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, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

People don't realise how dyslexia affects your confidence and how brutal it can be. People think you're dumb, and you know you're not. it's just how your brain works.

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

Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

I've lived with my dyslexia and gone on to have a successful recording career, but academically I never had a chance in hell because I didn't fall into that bracket.

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.

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.

I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

An exam should be passed by every man…. A man today, tomorrow -- a donkey.

I was obsessive-compulsive, and I probably had a little splash of Asperger's in there, but in those days, in 1953, you were just a difficult kid. Attention deficit didn't even exist back then. I really had trouble completing tasks - I couldn't sit still.

I'm not as stupid as some people think. I've got a degree in law.

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

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

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

I've got ADHD, and my whole life, people thought I was some kind of troublemaker because I had all this energy.

I used to be smart.

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.