#lexi

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#deals #even #grave #laugh #long

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#biggest problem #dyslexic #kids #perception #perceptual

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#dyslexia #even #growing #growing up #i

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. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#brain #circuit #dyslexic #eye #eyes

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#complexity #layered #modules #other #out

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#difficult #filled #lived #might #more

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me. ↗

— Regina King

#career #doing #everything #flexible #i

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them. ↗

— Allen Klein

#experience #find #first #humor #important

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#avoid #complexities #deal #degree #difficulty

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not. ↗

— Lawrence Kutner

#chopsticks #comes #complexity #despite #even