Marilyn vos Savant quotes
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“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
-- Marilyn vos SavantSource : "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.
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“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.”
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“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
-- Marilyn vos SavantSource : "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.
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“Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?”
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“Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?”
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“Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.”
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“Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.”
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“Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.”
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“The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.”
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“Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.”
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“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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“A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
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“Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.”
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“Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.”
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“There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.”
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“Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.”
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“Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?”
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“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'”
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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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“Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.”
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“Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.”
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“A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.”
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“Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.”
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“An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own”
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“Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.”
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“Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.”
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