Albert Einstein: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Mohammad Ali: "As a high school student, many of my teachers labeled me ‘DUMB.’ Of course I knew who the real dummies were. I barely graduated from high school. There was no way I was going to college–I never even thought about it. I could barely read my textbooks."
John Britten was a New Zealand mechanical engineer who designed a world-record-setting motorcycle with innovative features and materials. A dyslexic, he needed to have exam questions read to him at school and during his tertiary education, and his answers recorded by a writer, but that didn’t stop him from developing into a remarkable engineer and designer.
Whoopi Goldberg:"The advantage of dyslexia is that my brain puts information in my head in a different way".
Leonardo da Vinci: One remarkable indication that Leonardo was dyslexic is in his handwriting. Leonardo was constantly sketching out his ideas for inventions. Most of the time, he wrote his notes in reverse, mirror image.
Richard Branson: "Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer then other people do because I have to simplify things and that has helped me and that has helped others".
Steven Spielberg: It was the last puzzle part in a tremendous mystery that I've kept to myself all these years," says the director. Diagnosed five years ago he stated: "Movies kind of saved me from putting it on myself, from making it my burden when it wasn't."
