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Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
Marilyn vos Savant
American
Writer
Born:
Aug 11
,
1946
Able
How
Know
Time
You
Your
Related authors:
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William Arthur Ward
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
Giving
Giving Up
Temporary
Makes
Permanent
Condition
Up
Often
Being
Defeated
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
Marilyn vos Savant
Good
Great
Morning
You
Will
Great Idea
Idea
Awake
Keep
Night
Good Idea
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
Life
Education
Important
Than
Breadth
Length
Depth
Your
Less
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
Marilyn vos Savant
Alcohol
Cigarettes
Alternatives
Person
Being
Interesting
Interesting Person
Avoid
Using
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
You
Heart
Better
First
Before
Tells
One Thing
Head
Another
Anything
Decide
Whether
Should
Your
Thing
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
Own
Consider
Wrong
Between
Know
Principles
Personal
Difference
Gain
Your
Based
Right
Basis
Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
Marilyn vos Savant
You
Fall
Head
Dizzy
Feel
Faint
Know
Hit
Might
Your
Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
Marilyn vos Savant
Sunset
Sunrise
Sky
Once
Those
Find
Know
Looks
How
Least
Times
Where
Note
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
Marilyn vos Savant
Success
Our
Weaknesses
Developing
Achieved
Success Is
Strengths
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Marilyn vos Savant
Time
Habit
Weekends
Bed
Up
Precious
Precious Time
Getting
Bright
Waste
Why
Early
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
Cell Phone
Phone
Other
Oblivious
Chattering
Driving
Between
Talking
Passenger
Huge
End
Person
Cell
Difference
While
Your
Speaking
Away
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
Marilyn vos Savant
News
Confusion
Able
Fact
Between
Opinion
Notice
Appears
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
People
Problems
Sex
Other
Some
About
Emotional
Opposite
Opposite Sex
Suspect
Really
Who
Apparently
Deeply
Homosexual
Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
Marilyn vos Savant
Weather
Doors
Windows
Know
How
Affect
Movement
Humidity
Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
Marilyn vos Savant
Best
Foods
Know
Because
Taste
Expensive
Certain
Why
Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
Marilyn vos Savant
Dances
Latin
At Least One
Classic
Learn
Least
Ballroom
Them
Two
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
Marilyn vos Savant
Time
You
Every
Habit
Make
Read
Subscription
Anything
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
Time
Game
Once
Way
More
Learn
How
Than
Painless
Many
Play
Things
Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.
Marilyn vos Savant
Odds
Course
Always
Scientists
Creationist
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
Marilyn vos Savant
You
Waiting
Yourself
Book
Reading
Spending
Brought
Crossword
Puzzles
Doing
Moments
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
Time
Learning
Will
Analysis
Benefit
Ability
Compress
Develops
Chess
His
Boards
Less
Less Time
Who
Play
Her
Dozen
Player
Two
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
Marilyn vos Savant
Business
Long
Stay
Long-Term
Over
Term
Understand
Always
Loses
Gambler
Why
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
Marilyn vos Savant
Good
Argument
Punishment
Bad
Both
Source
Capital
Capital Punishment
Good And Bad
Many
Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
Marilyn vos Savant
Circuit
Fuse
Tripped
Know
Box
Breaker
Appearance
Function
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant
Intelligence
World
Between
New
Towers
Trade
Tightrope
Walking
Trying
York
Center
Skill
Successfully
Twin
World Trade
World Trade Center
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
Music
Listening
Homework
Think
Teen
Teens
Boredom
Concentrate
Concentration
Them
Helps
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