Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes

One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

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.

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

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

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

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

[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.

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

My thoughts are like waffles - the first few don't look so good.

Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.

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.

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.

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.

If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.

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.

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

The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

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.

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.