Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
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Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
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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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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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When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
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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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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
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Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
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Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
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Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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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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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
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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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Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
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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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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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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
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No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.