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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 58 quotes by Daniel Tammet Daniel Tammet FRSA (born 31 January 1979) is an English writer, essayist, translator, and autistic savant. His 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day, about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association. Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of France's best selling books of 2009. Thinking in Numbers, Tammet's third book, was published by... Read full biography of Daniel Tammet → 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of... → 0 I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system... → 0 When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and... → 0 I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent. 0 Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or... → 0 Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important... → 0 There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise... → 0 Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. 0 I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on... → 0 I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' 0 I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends... → 0 I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and... → 0 Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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