Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savantis an American who is known for having the highest recorded IQ according to the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. Savant is a magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright. Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn," a Parade magazine Sunday column where she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 August 1946
CountryUnited States of America
Marilyn vos Savant quotes about
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news
When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.