"The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)"

-- Temple Grandin

#Children Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Autism Quotes

“I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.”
“Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.”
“I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.
“I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.”
“I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.”
“I've never had one of those amazing yoga bodies. My body is what it is. I am sure if I went on a crash diet, lost two stone and toned up I could make loads of money by making fitness videos and selling my story to the tabloids. But I don't want to encourage women to be anything other than what they are. That's very important to me.”
“Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.”

Source : Jane Gardam (1986). “Crusoe's Daughter”, Atheneum Books
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