Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
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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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What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
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Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
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Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
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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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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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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.
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Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.
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Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
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Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
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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 go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
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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.
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Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
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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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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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Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
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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.