Temple Grandin Quotes

There is no silver bullet. I know people in Washington want grand solutions for everything.

… much like the cure-all theory of patent medicine.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

I don't have a magic wand that makes problems disappear.

I think this idea of a big break is a lie.

No one-liner can ever be optimal.

Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.

Organizational changes to fix the problems usually create new vulnerabilities in the process of fixing the old ones.

People always want change .... Government always raises expectations far beyond what is there.

Americans tend to believe that every problem has some technical solution.

If one has a flexible attitude, one knows how to deal with changing situations

Are our problems moving faster than our ability to solve them?

The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.

You can’t fix the things that bother you the most by passing a law.

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

I think for anything to be successful, your problems have to become different problems over time.

We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.

The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.

Everyone claims to have found the 'Holy Grail' - the perfect formula that can guarantee a hit in Bollywood. But those who seriously believe in it are deluded.

It's good to try and learn how to adapt.

We're lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren't working. Our response is usually to do it five times more, instead of thinking, maybe it's time to try something new.