"Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less."

--

Source : John Elder Robison (2011). “Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers”, p.128, Broadway Books

John Elder Robison

#People Quotes #Social Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.”
“And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.”
“Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You dont have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger.”
“The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.”

Source : Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”
“You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!”
“I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.”
“The Web makes people hypocritical, it encourages to take pseudonymes”

You may also like:

Amy Harmon
Journalist
Augusten Burroughs
Writer
Daniel Tammet
Writer
Hans Asperger
Medical Doctor
Liane Holliday Willey
Author
Mark Haddon
Novelist
Temple Grandin
Professor
Tony Attwood
Psychologist
Ari Ne'eman
Activist