"I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories."

-- Temple Grandin

#Thinking Quotes #Autism Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.”
“I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!”

Source : "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster
“I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.”
“The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of othersâ€™ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
“To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.”
“I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Most major domestic programs got more money this year, and they're used to reflect the priorities of the upcoming year. One good example is, the Secret Service is getting $268 extra dollars because it's a presidential election year and the agency's going to be under more demands.”

Source : "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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