Animal Quote by Temple Grandin Download Open image “To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.” — Temple Grandin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Animal Thinking Animals Away Language Get away Got Away Language Thinking Understand Animal
“You could teach an animal to learn your language, but you'd be missing the point. The point was to learn its language. Only then… — Ilie Ruby Copy Share Image
Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
“thus animals without symbolic language may lack the ability humans have to deliberately think about the past and imagine the future.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
“How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Learning how to communicate with animals is just like learning any other language. The more you practice, the better you become.” — Karen A. Anderson Copy Share Image
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know. — Irene Pepperberg Copy Share Image
My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.' — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
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… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer? — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image