Quotes By Marilyn Vos Savant
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
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Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
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I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
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Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
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Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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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.
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Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
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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.
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Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
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I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
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Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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