Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Lewis

Like the distribution center we'll open next year in Anderson, S.C., our goal for this facility is to have one-third of the workforce made up of disabled employees working side-by-side with other team members. We're doing this because it's the right thing to do. Seventy percent of adults with disabilities - and 95 percent of people with autism - will never be offered a job. I believe we can, and will, make a difference for many of them.

Thomas R. Insel

A National Database on Autism Research is fostering sharing of data and collaborations. Scientists are also making great strides at the interface of biology and engineering with new technologies that are laying the groundwork for future advances.

Abraham Lincoln

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

Ban Ki-moon

Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.

Rick Klinenberg

We were told to sit down, take a deep breath, and then the doctor told us that David had a pervasive development disorder on the autism spectrum.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

For a long time our son was a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's a teenager with autism - and a teenager who notices girls - we're faced with something else altogether.

Michael Johnson

With as many as 50 percent of children with autistic disorder experiencing regular GI problems, we recognize the significant impact these issues have on the autism community, which currently has limited information on the cause and appropriate treatments.

Stephen Barrett

Many doctors who treat children for autism claim they are suffering from mercury or lead toxicity. There is not sufficient evidence that autism is caused by mercury or lead toxicity.

Clay Aiken

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

B. F. Skinner

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

Ambrose Bierce

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

Bill Parcells

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

Alan Perlis

There is no such thing as a free variable.

James F. Cooper

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Luc de Clapiers

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

Terence McKenna

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

Robert A. Heinlein

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Feist

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

J. J. Johnson

Patients with pain and mobility disorders won't have to travel to multiple clinics for their care.

Denis Diderot

Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Jane Green

Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.

Frank Furedi

Gluttons no longer gorge themselves; they are simply suffering from one of a variety of eating disorders

Mao Zedong

There is great disorder under heaven...the situation is excellent.

Kate Forsyth

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

Edward Abbey

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

Scott Stossel

I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.

Kathryn Prescott

The reason most people get eating disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely - nobody knows anything about nutrition or exercise. I think it should be a separate subject in school.