All Daniel Tammet Quotes
- Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.' American
- From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several… Canada
- 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
- I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It gives you a new perspective on the world. Broaden
- I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know. Anyone
- I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' Chopin
- I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends. Friends
- I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know… Average
- It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world. Absorb
- We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science. Any
- 37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand… Bit
- I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just… Certain
- I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I… Amount
- 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… Any
- I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided… Able
- Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we… Able
- My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is… Age
- 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… Act
- Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being… Able
- There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us… Abilities