Quotes from Marilyn vos Savant

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.

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.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

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

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

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.

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

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

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

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.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

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

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

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.

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

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

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 behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.