"I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation."

-- Temple Grandin

#Emotional Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Autism Quotes

“Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.”
“A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.”
“Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.”

Source : "Brian Sandoval RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.
“A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.”
“You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment.”

Source : Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.50, Vintage
“If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.”
“The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.”
“One of the cool things I remember is the Swiss people brought their big cowbells.”

You may also like:

Claire Danes
Actress
Daniel Tammet
Writer
Hans Asperger
Medical Doctor
John Elder Robison
Author
Oliver Sacks
Neurologist
Simon Baron-Cohen
Professor
Tony Attwood
Psychologist
Sean Barron
Journalist
Sy Montgomery
Author