Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
"Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: First, Neighbors)
"Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Cats, Dogs, Sight)
"Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Heart, Promise, Right)
"Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Want, Will)
"Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Time, Work)
"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Confusion, Fact, News, Opinion)
"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Country, Insects, Plants, Spiders)
"Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Complaint, Evening)
"Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Life, Habit, School, Self)
"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Work, Ability, Communication)
"Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Taste)
"Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: State)
"Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Difference, Gain, Principles, Right, Wrong)
"Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Appearance)
"Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Artists, Famous, Names, Past)
"Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Office, Post, states)
"Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Life)
"Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Being, Giving)
"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Office)
"Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Travel, Car)
"Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Time, Habit)
"Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: People)
"Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Time, Trying)
"Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Education, Life)
"Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Sky, Sunset)
"If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Heart, First)
"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Argument, Punishment)
"Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Arguments, Evolution)
"Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Time, Experts)
"Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Time, Sense, Will)
"Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?"
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Eyes, Struggle)
"I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Work)
"I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Sex, People, Problems)
"Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Weather, Windows)
"I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Children, May)
"Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: People, Poor, Service)
"Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Maturity, Measure)
"Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Complaint, Voice)
"Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Food, Eye)
"Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?"
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Time, Habit, Bed, Waste)
"I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Change, Motivation, First, Gay)
"Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Moments, Reading, Waiting)
"While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Saying, Writing)
"The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: America, Freedom)
"People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Work, People, Progress)
"The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Time, Ability, Chess, Learning, Play, Will)
"Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Music, Boredom, Listening)
"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from.""
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: America, Balance, Freedom)
"Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Negative, Spelling)
"The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Difference, Driving, End, Talking)
"Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Society, People, Needs, Projects)
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge, Study)
"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Intelligence, Skill, Trade, Trying, Walking, World)
"Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Scientists)
"Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Time, Play)
"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Success)
"Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Car)
"Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Meaning, Words)
"Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Arguments, Opinion)
"Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Grammar, Words)
"Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Mother, Father, Secrets)
"Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Home, Attention, Children, Office, Trying)
"Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Flying)
"Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Business)
"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Argument, Statistics, Support)
"Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Alcohol, Being, Drugs)
"Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Society, Attention, Cause)
"At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Life, First)
"Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: English, Language, Rules)
"A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Will)
"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Idea, Night, Will)
"Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Acquaintance)