"I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Ahmet Zappa

#Overcoming Quotes #Dyslexia Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”

Source : Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.16
“The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.”

Source : Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.
“I believe that what works for the consumer is to be able to determine what they can pay -- even if it is nothing. (Just joking.) Unfortunately, so many depend on credit for living expenses, and the lower payments helped them in the immediate term. I am OK with that. For those who want their minimum to be more, you don't have to wait on your credit issuer to increase the payment -- do it on your own. For others, at this time, I think it's a horrible idea.”
“What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness. But halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge...maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.”
“There isnâ€™t anything I have to be afraid of, love is the answer.”
“we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been”
“There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE CASES OF VIOLET STRANGE - Complete Mystery Collection: Whodunit Classics: The Golden Slipper, The Second Bullet, An Intangible Clue, The Grotto Spectre, The Dreaming Lady, The House of Clocks, Missing: Page Thirteen Violet's Own…”, p.197, e-artnow
“Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.74, Penguin

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