Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

Giving, Often, Makes

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
Marilyn vos Savant

Person, Alcohol, Avoid

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

Communication, Work, Live

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, Boredom, Listening

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
Marilyn vos Savant

Funny, Time, Enough

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

Heart, Before, Another

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
Marilyn vos Savant

Morning, Good, Great

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

Able, Used, Support

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

Life, Good, Since

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
Marilyn vos Savant

Strong, Perfect, Negative

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant

Trying, Between, York

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

Become, Able, Depressed

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant

Words, Speak, Able

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

Sunrise, Find, Once

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
Marilyn vos Savant

Work, Down, Put

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
Marilyn vos Savant

Opinion, Able, Defend

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

Struggle, Eyes, Hear

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

Knowledge, Wisdom, Study

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

Life, School, High

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
Marilyn vos Savant

Food, Before, Eye

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Marilyn vos Savant

Mother, Father, Able

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

Society, Individual, Needs

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
Marilyn vos Savant

Freedom, America, Perfect

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
Marilyn vos Savant

Freedom, America, Individual

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

Work, Time, Done

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 11, 1946

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