Daniel Tammet Quotes

How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things.

Daniel Tammet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 31, 1979

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I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.

John Malkovich

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LaGuardia is jammed into just 680 urban acres; taxiways are tight; runways intersect; you can't launch a departure until the arrival on the other runway crosses the threshold or else the airplanes will ... collide.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Through social, location, and mobile technologies (SoLoMo) we now have the ability to leverage our virtual communities into the physical world, to bring our online experiences offline.

John Zimmer

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Americans enjoy the exciting, cinematic vision of a squad of muscle-bound Goliath boasting Olympian speed, strength, and precision - a group whose collective success is the inevitable consequence of the individual strengths of its members and the masterful planning of a visionary commander.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.

Tony La Russa

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The whole point is it's about getting as many people to come and see the play as you can.

Roger Rees

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In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds. Some had been built near kitchens, a taboo in Indian households.

Rose George

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The size of the energy sector in Mexico is just so vast; it has an outsize impact on the rest of the Mexican economy.

Luis Videgaray Caso

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I feel extremely guilty that I've had to put team-mates through extra media questions.

Lizzie Armitstead

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The living room is where we come to think, to slow down the world for a second.

Jason Winston George

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In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.

Jared Polis

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Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.

Denise Van Outen

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