"When I achieved the European record for reciting……" — Daniel Tammet
"When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year."
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56 Quotes by Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet has 56 quotes on this site.
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Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of…
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The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions…
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We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name…
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One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first…
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I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon…
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I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control…
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Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single,…
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I'm inconsistent because I'm human.
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I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at…
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Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we…
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I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.
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I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.
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More Achieved Quotes
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We…
— Abu Abbas
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who…
— David Baldacci
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will…
— Dave Barry
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
— Bruce Barton
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
— Victoria Beckham
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it,…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
— Usain Bolt
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