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If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Alive Away Come English Fantastic Feeding Grammar Imagination Just Language Learn Like Love Makes Our Our Love Rules Stories Subject Take Taught Us Would

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Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Bureaucracy Control Important Just Like My Own Office Own Really Retaining Sense Style Targets Things Time Work

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I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Anyone Anyone Else Books Else Know Love More Much Read Than I Love

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I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

~Daniel Tammet

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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 what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Bit Cold Dark Darkness Experience Four Having Imagine Inside Like Little Myself Number Sadness Shy Similarly Six Small Trying Understand Very Whenever Would

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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.

~Daniel Tammet

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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 delineated borders.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Borders Clear Contentment Did Happiness Kind Life Restricted Small Very Within

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In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Alive Child Color Come Far Form Friends Ink Me Mind More Numbers Page Texture Than Them Thought Which Why Words Young Young Child

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What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them!

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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 could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Any Believe Complexity Could Describe Experience Fact Her Hesitate His In Fact Intelligence Know Mind More Much My Own Nature Number Own Person Potential Really Reflect System Than Uniqueness Iq

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: January 31st, 1979

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