Marilyn vos Savant famous quotes

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Inspirational #Leadership #Wisdom

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Inspirational #Strength #Success

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Weekend #Literature #Waste

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?
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Doors #Games #Car

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Madness #Distraction #Arise

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Literature #Able #Way

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Heart #Promise #Secret

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#America #Essence #Individual

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Food #Eye #Literature

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.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Believe #Thinking #Lovers

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.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Player #Two #Benefits

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Writing #Literature #Wells

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.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Children #Home #Office

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Trying #Six #Three

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Illustration #Able #Literature

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.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Literature #Language #Spoken English

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Courage #World #Plenty

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Travel #Car #Towns

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Struggle #Eye #Literature

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#4th Of July #Patriotic #Essence

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Blessing #Thinking #Boredom

Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Doors #Weather #Movement

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Issues #Literature #States

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Morning #Night #Ideas

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#New York #Skills #Trying

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Book #Writing #Justice

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Positivity #Thinking #Feelings

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Literature #Appearance #Function