Temple Grandin Quotes

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

I'm a hypervisual person.

I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.

You are either visual or you're not.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

I'm a visual person.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

In some ways, I'm just a visual person.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

I'm a visual person, a conceptual person.

I have a visual imagination.

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom are normal, some of whom have brain lesions, who cannot produce visual imagery.

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.