Temple Grandin Quotes

We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.

My life is basically my work.

I've got my one area I work in and I want to educate people about autism and I also want to improve, you know, animal handling and transport and make a real change out in the field on the ground.

I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.

I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.

The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age.

The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.

If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.

We found if you took the dog out for 45 minutes a day and worked with it that the solitary stress hormone, cortisol, went down. But then it went right back up again because they didn't keep doing it.

I'm pure geek, pure logic.

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.

When I was younger, I didn't even realize the way I think visually is different.

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

I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.

I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.

What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.

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

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

The world needs all types of minds.

It is human nature to strive.

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.