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Pressure is calming to the nervous system. Temple Grandin
Pressure Nervous System Nervous System Calming
I like to figure things out and solve problems. Temple Grandin
Problems Out Solve Like Figure Things
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. Temple Grandin
Pilot Engineer Airplane Invented Automatic Grandfather Who
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.' Temple Grandin
People Some People Autism Some Like Talk Vowel Said Sounds Hear Cup Just Might Who
It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. Temple Grandin
Parents Picture Important Young Cold Bathroom Way Those Give Point Glass Like Talk Encourage Very Jacket Autistic Autistic Children Where Children Board Them Communicating Milk
It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school. Temple Grandin
Work School Mother Job Hassle More Until Because Go Child Autistic Much Working
I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone. Temple Grandin
Good Me Sometimes Mother Parents Sense Think Slightly Kids Good Sense Outside Had Fail Comfort Comfort Zone How Very Just Teachers Zone Stretch
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath. Terrance Hayes
Music Language Breath Our Poems Instrument Just Form Happens
Pittsburgh was the first chance to be in a classroom with other writers, to have conversations with other writers. In fact, after graduate school, I lived in Japan, Ohio and New Orleans, and only upon leaving Pittsburgh did I see what a special community it was for poets, so I was eager to come back. It's a strong arts community across the board. Terrance Hayes
Strong School First Community Other Back See Classroom Only Poets Fact Writers New Come Leaving New Orleans Did Graduate Graduate School Arts Ohio In Fact Pittsburgh After Conversations Board Japan Across Special Lived Eager Orleans Chance
Poets are like the decathletes of literature. Terrance Hayes
Poets Like Literature
Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me. Terrance Hayes
Art Time Me You Joy Other Kind Poem Having Put Learned Sort Expect Than Get Front Where Anything Thing
We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand. Terrance Hayes
Car Made Ourselves Computers Know Because Understand Anything Created Really
Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. Terrance Hayes
Will Reading See Some Blackness Diverse Poetry Contemporary How Subject Quickly Handling Just African-American Anyone Enduring Race Realize
While the debate over banned books usually seems to happen just outside the gates of government, it takes on a new danger and urgency when legislators get involved. Their actions cause voices to be silenced both inside and outside the books. That's un-American. Terrance Hayes
Government Cause Debate Books Danger Un-American Silenced Inside Seems Both Voices Outside Takes Over New Involved Get Just Legislators Banned Happen While Urgency Actions Gates
The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other. Thelma Golden
Myself Speak Space Power Beauty Other Ourselves About Had New Talk Exhibition Discovered Discovery Curator Privilege Offer Just Works Each
I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it. Thelma Golden
Art Time Too Much Live Too Too Much Time Spend Much Tweaking
I'm a big Whole Foods fan. Thelma Golden
Big Foods Fan Whole Whole Foods
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. Thomas Arnold
Life Work Hard Work Morning Age Men Calm Alike Sun Extremity Out Seems Cheerful Labor May Childhood Tranquil Midday Burn Either Place Should Hard Evening Playful
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. Thomas Arnold
Knowledge Value Thought Else Everything Everything Else Easily Must More Studied Like Obtained Real Prayed Real Knowledge Worked
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy. Thomas Arnold
Man Energy Ability One-Man Mere Between Another Difference
Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. Thomas Hoving
Art Painting Parks Just Sculpture Works
Great art should be shown with great excitement. Thomas Hoving
Art Great Great Art Excitement Should Shown
My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp. Thomas Hoving
Art Change Addiction Hey Intolerable Has-Been Constant Life-Long No-One Attitudes Nasty Been Lot Off Itself Done Disguised Irresponsible Being Manifested Low Really Fun Showing Actions Publicity
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job. Thomas Hoving
Work Art You Yourself Job Greed Doing Covetousness Up Fever Just Museum
When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.' Thomas Hoving
Art Director People Care Girl Young Kick Way Hey Run Dates Pick Come Attract Make Became Around Boy Said Metropolitan Up Want Wanted Either Young People Them Thing Gray Museum
No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art. Thomas Hoving
Work Art Great Matter Tried Never Great Work How Hard
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