Al Duncan Quotes
Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.
Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.
Hugs may come less frequently from someone with autism but when they do, you know it means everything.
To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
People think there's a single solution to complex problems, and the solution is often making an enemy of a group of people - pulling back and rejecting the other.
What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.
Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.
I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.
I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me
Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.
Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.
Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.
I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.
I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.
The whole world can believe in you but that won't mean a thing if you don't believe in yourself too.
If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.
While fighting for acceptance, we must remember that our own self worth is not determined by whether or not we get it.
The first time I played against Seattle was the only time I felt destroyed. Vin Baker just manhandled me. The whole thing, their double teams, their movement, everything.
Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff. Veteran moves.
Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.
Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.
Achievement without fulfillment "High achievement without fulfillment is a broken way of life."
What's wrong vs Right with you It's not a question of what's wrong with you, it's a question of what's right with you.
Other countries have outeducated us. They have made this a priority. And a big part of what I'm trying to do, frankly, is raise the profile of education and get America to wake up.
Other countries haves passed us by. They're outworking us. They're outcompeting us. We have got to wake up and we have got to start moving.
There's so much that we're doing wrong today. And studies show we're one of three countries that doesn't invest more in disadvantaged communities.
When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.
