Temple Grandin Quotes

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

I can communicate what I want to in Tamil, but I can't express myself in the language very well.

I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign... I couldn't really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

I can't speak much Italian. I do go down well over there, but it's frustrating because I can't really speak it. Even if I do talk, they can't understand my accent, but I should try to learn it.

I'm not really good with explaining myself verbally, but I do it through music and other outlets.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.