Daniel Tammet Quotes

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

I only came to Paris with the intention of showing what I thought was strong and beautiful. It just so happened that my notion was different from everybody else's.

What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

All experience is subjective.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.