Quotes

“The most interesting people you’ll find are ones that don’t fit into your average cardboard box. They’ll make what they need, they’ll make their own boxes.” – Dr. Temple Grandin

“It seems that for success in science and art, a dash of autism is essential” – Hans Asperger

“I might hit milestones in a different order than my peers, but I accomplish them on my own time.” — Haley Moss

“Different, not less.” — Temple Grandin

“The reason that so many people don’t really feel happy while they’re building up their success in the eyes of society is that they are living in competition.” ― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage To Be Disliked 

“Being praised essentially means that one is receiving judgment from another person as ‘good.’ And the measure of what is good or bad about that act is that person’s yardstick. If receiving praise is what one is after, one will have no choice but to adapt to that person’s yardstick and put the brakes on one’s own freedom.” ― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage To Be Disliked 

“A way of living in which one is constantly troubled by how one is seen by others is a self-centered lifestyle in which one’s sole concern is with the “I.” ― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage To Be Disliked 

“If one really has confidence in oneself, one doesn’t feel the need to boast. It’s because one’s feeling of inferiority is strong that one boasts. One feels the need to flaunt one’s superiority all the more. There’s the fear that if one doesn’t do that, not a single person will accept one “the way I am.” This is a full-blown superiority complex.” ― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage To Be Dislike 

“Your life is not something that someone gives you, but something you choose yourself, and you are the one who decides how you live.” ― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage To Be Disliked 

“If one really has a feeling of contribution, one will no longer have any need for recognition from others. Because one will already have the real awareness that “I am of use to someone,” without needing to go out of one’s way to be acknowledged by others. In other words, a person who is obsessed with the desire for recognition does not have any community feeling yet, and has not managed to engage in self-acceptance, confidence in others, or contribution to others.” ― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage To Be Disliked