Temple Grandin Quotes

When you've grown up always knowing that there's something that seemed to be different about you from most people - and not being able to understand until my mid-forties that what we were talking about here was autism - I've had to learn an awful let about myself and what I can and can't do and what I can or can't cope with.

I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 14. Weirdly enough, I then learnt, through doing different things, to concentrate.

If we think about the autism spectrum as involving a very strong drive to systemize, that can have very positive consequences for the individual and for society. The downside is that when you try to systemize certain parts of the world like people and emotions, those sorts of phenomena are less lawful and harder to systemize.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

We're very interested in helping individuals on the autism spectrum cope and learn about social interactions and regulating emotions.

Going to drama school was the start of my journey of discovery and getting to know myself.

I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.

I both didn't know Owen [Suskind] beforehand and didn't have any connection to the autistic community. But Owen wasn't really a problem, because he participated in the writing of the book and wanted people to see him as he truly is. As far as the cameras, Owen lives in the moment and the cameras really didn't distract him.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Fear dims when you learn things.

The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

I'm quite severely dyslexic so I struggle with acting in certain ways. I always have to put in triple the amount of effort, which would always frustrate me a lot. I suppose that some people can just look at a script once and know it. That's not me. I really have to spend a bit of time with the lines. But it's my job and I've got better and better at it. If you're learning a lot, things start going quicker. Doing the lines with repetition and you just get it in your head somehow.