Daniel Tammet Quotes

I have learned to feel my way through life, personally and professionally.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them.

There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover from mistakes.

No matter what twists and turns your life offers you, your ability to be adaptable and flexible will help you to stay open to all of the hidden gifts that difficulty may offer.

We're lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren't working. Our response is usually to do it five times more, instead of thinking, maybe it's time to try something new.

You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

Every experience makes you grow.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.