286 Quotes by Temple Grandin

What a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad. The performances of horse or man so treated would seem to be displays of clumsy gestures rather than of grace and beauty. What we need is that the horse should of his own accord exhibit his finest airs and paces at set signals.

When you’re a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

It is human nature to strive.

The body and the brain aren’t two different things, controlled by two completely different sets of genes. Many of the same chemicals that work in your heart and organs also work in your brain, and many genes do one thing.

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

The Internet may be the best thing yet for improving an autistic person’s social life.

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

People who are attached to each other develop a social dependence on each other that’s based in a physical dependence on brain opiates.

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