"I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. 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."

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Source : "A genius explains". Interview with Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.

Daniel Tammet

#Office Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Style Quotes

“But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."”

Source : Philip Morin Freneau (1861). “Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence”, p.293
“I'm actually scared of horror movies. I'm kind of Scaredy Cat when it comes to that stuff.”
“When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.”
“I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.”
“I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.”
“To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.”
“I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.”
“Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.”

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