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Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
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
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.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
The original answer defines certain conditions, [ ... ] Anything else is a different question.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
What women want is what men want. They want respect.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
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
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
My thoughts are like waffles - the first few don't look so good.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
— 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.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
— Marilyn Vos Savant
The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
— Marilyn Vos Savant
A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
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
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
I've never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. — Marilyn Vos Savant
You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
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
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
![Vos Savant Quotes By Marilyn Vos Savant: [Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/vos-savant-quotes-by-marilyn-vos-savant-1044318.jpg "Vos Savant Quotes By Marilyn Vos Savant: [Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff")
[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.
— Marilyn Vos Savant