People Quotes by Temple Grandin

Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.

— Temple Grandin

Dogs serve people, but people serve cats.

— Temple Grandin

People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

— Temple Grandin

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

— Temple Grandin

Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

— Temple Grandin

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

— Temple Grandin

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

— Temple Grandin

People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.

— Temple Grandin

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

— Temple Grandin

Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear…

— Temple Grandin

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

— Temple Grandin

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

— Temple Grandin

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

— Temple Grandin

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

— Temple Grandin

You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.

— Temple Grandin

You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.

— Temple Grandin

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one…

— Temple Grandin

I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual…

— Temple Grandin

A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune…

— Temple Grandin

I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were…

— Temple Grandin

I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works.…

— Temple Grandin

There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire…

— Temple Grandin

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to…

— Temple Grandin

Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got…

— Temple Grandin

I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the…

— Temple Grandin

In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder…

— Temple Grandin

For example, if ears are back on a horse, it's obviously not very happy. And the eyes show that it's not happy.…

— Temple Grandin

How do you have a think in pictures? Well, you have to sort the pictures into categories. You know, for example, a…

— Temple Grandin

I try to return my calls but I get inundated with emails and I can't answer them all. So often, I have…

— Temple Grandin

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a…

— Temple Grandin

I don't like the way most people think. It's imprecise. I find that when parents ask me questions, they ask very imprecise…

— Temple Grandin

One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've…

— Temple Grandin

I want get people to think about sensory based of thinking.

— Temple Grandin

People with autism aren't interested in social chit-chat.

— Temple Grandin

I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has…

— Temple Grandin

I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in…

— Temple Grandin

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic…

— Temple Grandin

I've got my one area I work in and I want to educate people about autism and I also want to improve,…

— Temple Grandin

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around…

— Temple Grandin

Seeking is a combination of emotions people usually think of as being different: wanting something really good, looking forward to getting something…

— Temple Grandin