Marilyn vos Savant - From the Advice category:
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Ambition category:
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)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Business category:
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Choices category:
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)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Concentration category:
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)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Confession category:
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Distraction category:
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Education category:
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)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Freedom category:
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.' (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Habit category:
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)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Humour category:
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)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Ideas category:
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Individuality category:
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Language category:
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Persistence category:
Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Play category:
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)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Recognition category:
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Senses category:
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes? (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Skill category:
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Solitude category:
Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Success category:
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Talent category:
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin – there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Technology category:
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)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Time category:
Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Timeliness category:
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)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Wisdom category:
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Words category:
When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Marilyn vos Savant - From the Work category:
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while. (Marilyn vos Savant)
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