Quotes By Marilyn Vos Savant

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.

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

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.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

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.

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

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.

Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

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.

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

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.