Famous Quotes

Quotes by Marilyn Vos Savant

• A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
• Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
• Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
• Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
• 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.
• Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
• 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.
• Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
• Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
• Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
• Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
• Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
• Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
• Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
• 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.
• The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
• The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
• To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
• Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
• What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
• 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.