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Temple Grandin Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“There’s a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.”
— Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
Tagged: Engineering, Building, creating
“I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.”
— Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Tagged: Place, Death, animal, Slaughter, Ritual
“The only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”
— Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Tagged: Immortality, Life, Place, Earth, library, Collective Memory, humanity
“I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.”
— Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
Tagged: animal, Living Condition, Brain
“But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.”
— Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Tagged: einstein, Religion, Science, Spirituality, Belief, Life, Questions
“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.”
— Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Tagged: Autism, Scientists, Traits, socialization
“I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.”
— Temple Grandin
Tagged: Animals, food, Ethical, Life, Death, Respect
“Nature is cruel but we don't have to be.”
— Temple Grandin, The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's
Tagged: Nature, Cruelty, kindness
“I believe there is some ultimate ordering force for good in the universe - not a personal thing, not Buddha or Jesus, maybe something like order out of disorder. I like to hope that even if there's no personal afterlife, some energy impression is left in the universe... most people can pass on genes - I can pass on thoughts or what I write.”
— Temple Grandin
Tagged: Universe, force, Energy
“I don't like radical anything; left or right. I have a radical dislike of radicals.”
— Temple Grandin
Tagged: Radical, Thinking, Thoughts
“I was attending the American Society of Animal Science meetings when the flood occurred. I first learned about it when I read about it on the front page of USA Today, a national newspaper. I grieved for the "dead" books, the same way most people grieve for a dead relative. The destruction of books upset me because "thoughts died." Even though most of the books are still in other libraries, there are many people at the (Colorado State) university who will never read them. To me, Shakespeare lives if we keep performing his plays. He dies, when we stop performing them. I am my work. If the livestock industry continues to use equipment I have designed, then my "thoughts live" and my life has meaning. If my efforts to improve the treatment of cattle and pigs make real improvements in the world, then life is meaningful.”
— Temple Grandin
Tagged: Books, Thoughts, Ideas, Work, Life, Meaning
“And another reason to make sure we're not doing atrocious things at the slaughter plant is that if it is too easy to do something really atrocious to an animal; with the poor animal screaming and everything; the person who could do that might not have any problem torturing people. I remember one of the reasons that St. Thomas Aquinas said that we have to treat animals right is so that people themselves don't get corrupted.”
— Temple Grandin
Tagged: Atrocity, Slaughter, animal
“They may ask why nature or God created such horrible conditions as autism, manic depression, and schizophrenia. However, if the genes that caused these conditions were eliminated there might be a terrible price to pay.”
— Temple Grandin
Tagged: Nature, God, Autism, Depression, Schizoprenia
“Tyrants who get into power make life miserable for everyone.”
— Temple Grandin, Developing Talents
Tagged: tyranny, Power, Authority, Abuse
“Since I think just in pictures it's sort of hard to think about abstract concepts so I have to have visual images like for example when I was a child I didn't really understand some of the stuff in the Lord's Prayer and y'know when it talks about "the power and the glory"...and I thought "electrical high tension lines, circular rainbow." "Thou art in Heaven"; that didn't make any sense to me but another autistic person says "Well I always pictured God up in Heaven with an easel."”
— Temple Grandin,
Tagged: Understanding, Abstract, Sensibility
“Mother prepared me to live in the world, but she didn't try to make me into a social being just so I could hang out with other teenagers at the lake, or have pajama parties with other girls. Her eyes were on a bigger prize - giving me the skills and nurturing the talents that would allow me to graduate from school, attend college, find a satisfying job and live independently.”
— Temple Grandin, Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism: New Edition with Author Updates
Tagged: Parenting, mother, Nurture, Independence, Motherhood
“Even today, romantic love is just not part of my life. And you know what? That's okay with me.”
— Temple Grandin, The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships
Tagged: romance, Romantic Love, Life
“It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric.”
— Temple Grandin
Tagged: eccentric, Personality, Rude
“If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.”
— Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Tagged: Autism, Thoughts, Eradication, socialization
“Most people don't realize that the slaughter plant is much gentler than nature. Animals in the wild die from starvation, predators, or exposure. If I had a choice, I would rather go through a slaughter system than have my guts ripped out by coyotes or lions while I was still conscious. Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.”
— Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Tagged: plants, Animals, Nature, Birth, Death
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