Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

• Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.

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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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• Success is achieved by developing your strengths, not by eliminating our weakness.

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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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• While you’re writing, you can’t concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

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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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• What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.”

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• Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business – the gambler always loses over the long term.

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• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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• The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

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• The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

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• The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

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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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• 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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• Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

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• 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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Marilyn vos Savant (90)

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

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