Temple Grandin Quotes

Quotes about:

• Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

  Temple Grandin

  Baseball, Children, School

  372 Copy quote
• 

  When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting value. That's the meaning of life, it's that simple.

  Temple Grandin

  Simple, Magic, Meaning Of Life

  125 Copy quote

• People on the autism spectrum don't think the same way you do. In my life, people who made a difference were those who didn't see labels, who believed in building on what was there. These were people who didn't try to drag me into their world, but came into mine instead.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  40 Copy quote

• There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Needs, Emphasis

  119 Copy quote
• 

  The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

  Temple Grandin

  Mind, Working Together, Different

  115 Copy quote

• What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Autism, Caves

  118 Copy quote

• I am different, not less

  Temple Grandin

  Inspiring, Autism, Different

  118 Copy quote

• I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Thinking, Giving

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

  93 Copy quote
• 

  The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

  Temple Grandin

  Play, Autistic, Keep Learning

  78 Copy quote
• 

  People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Magic, Bullets

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

  53 Copy quote

• Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

  Temple Grandin

  Compassion, Stewardship

  66 Copy quote

• I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

  Temple Grandin

  Inspirational, Funny, Animal

  9 Copy quote

• I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

  Temple Grandin

  Frustration, Able, Remember

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

  58 Copy quote

• All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, People, Brain

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2010). “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  10 Copy quote

• I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people who share your interests makes socializing easier.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Autism, Special

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.164, BookBaby

  86 Copy quote

• Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

  Temple Grandin

  Art, People, Giving

  60 Copy quote

• You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Acting, Overload

  11 Copy quote

• You can be honest without sharing your opinions on everything.

  Temple Grandin

  Opinion, Honest, Being Honest

  23 Copy quote

• You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - little sound bites like, it's a very detailed memory.

  Temple Grandin

  Memories, Animal, Thinking

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

  41 Copy quote

• In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

  Temple Grandin

  Special, Too Much, Enough

  45 Copy quote

• I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.

  Temple Grandin

  Done, Want, Not Interested

  "An Anthropologist On Mars". The New Yorker, December 27, 1993.

  40 Copy quote

• People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Perfection, High Standards

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.29, SUNY Press

  28 Copy quote

• In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.

  Temple Grandin

  Rocks, People, Autism

  Temple Grandin (2009). “Thinking in Pictures”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

  63 Copy quote

• It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death.

  Temple Grandin

  Nature, Animal, People

  18 Copy quote

• I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Autism, Enough

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

  25 Copy quote

Page 1 of 9

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin