Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

• Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

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• Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

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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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• Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

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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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• 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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• Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

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• Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

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• Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don’t have time to read.

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• Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

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• Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It’s not because they taste best.

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• Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

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

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• Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

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• Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

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• Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

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• Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

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• Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

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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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Marilyn vos Savant (90)

Birth:	11th August, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

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