"Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it."

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Source : Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

Daniel Tammet

#Beautiful Quotes #Unique Quotes #Symphony Quotes

“We are a landscape of all we have seen.”
“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”

Source : Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.82, Souvenir Press
“There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.”

Source : "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.
“Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.”
“A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.”
“I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny â€“ a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls.”
“To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.”
“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”

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