3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant 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.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Be able to live alone, even if you don’t want to and think you will never find it necessary.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant 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.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant 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.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business – the gambler always loses over the long term.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant 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.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don’t know the cause.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom ‘to’ and freedom ‘from.’
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
