Top 1200 Learning Disability Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

It's really important to remember that disability is diversity, and that disabled actors and disabilities are something that is hugely under-represented in film.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

I am in a small minority as a black female with a disability. But I've shown that even with conditions like MS, it's not the setback that it has to be.

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

Learning Gardens are outdoor classrooms, engaging learning environments where kids learn about math, science, entrepreneurship, and above all else, real food.

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.

The broken VA disability claims process has failed to adequately aid veterans with toxic exposure during their military service.

In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

But by reframing the learning process and focusing on the cool end goal, the fear of failure is often taken off the table, and learning just comes more naturally.

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.

The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

I don't think you can only have people with disability talking about the Paralympics. Clare Balding didn't need to be disabled to cover it.

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I feel like every person has a disability in some way. Whether you're dyslexic or Republican or whatever.

Maybe because I had a sister with a disability I was already sensitised to and fascinated by people who think or develop differently.

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

I am learning something new everyday, be it learning piano or enrolling myself for online courses, reading, writing or doing yoga.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.

I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.

The Learning Hub is a collection of handmade concrete towers surrounding a central space that brings everyone together, interspersed with nooks, balconies and gardens for informal collaborative learning.

To be at the forefront of something that can spark a major change as far as kids going to an HBCU and learning about our history and learning about our culture and learning about our ancestors, where we came from - that's a big thing, that's a really big thing.

There is no doubt I'm learning new things and progressing with David Moyes. The sessions we have on the training ground are fantastic, and I'm learning a lot from them every day.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

There's a lot of preconceived ideas of what disability is, what a disabled person should be like, and I try to throw that in your face.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.

Obviously, I can't get away from having a disability, but sometimes when you have a beard and long hair, people can't figure it out.

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.

Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get the point that learning is everything.

Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.

I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability.

You're always learning as an actor... anything you do is a learning experience. It's the same whether you're doing film or TV, you have to do the part to the best of your ability, no matter how big or small the role. It's as simple as that, really. But every bit of work you do is a learning experience - which is the same, I guess, for people in whatever job they do. But with acting, it's also fun to be able to explore different characters and emotions.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Not only does disability impact individual health and well-being, it also leads to social and economic exclusion.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

I have a Disability yes that's true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path than you.

I like to discuss my condition publicly because if I, with this disability, am able to fulfill some of my ambitions, so can other diabetics.

So in a strong sense with Java it was a learning process for us - there was some tech learning - but the most important learnings were social or behavioral things.

Part of what makes college football great is what you learn playing it. Being selfless, learning how to go through adversity as a group, learning about perseverance.