#all

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#ball game #baseball #baseball game #because #emotional

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#first #genetics #get #guy #made

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

— Temple Grandin

#bullet #change #everything #looking #magic

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#challenge #disillusioned #illusions #live #modernity

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#animal #boring #bunch #concrete #down

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#always #autistic #because #behave #being

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#envy #especially #frustrate #good #may

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#courteous #courtesy #equally #injustice #little

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#better #business #ease #else #even

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#always #certain #certain things #different #feel