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Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

American - Writer | August 11, 1946 -

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.

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Learning Time Play Chess Will Two

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

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Intelligence World Walking Trying

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

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Construction Process Used Able Read

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

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Negative Strong Perfect Invisible

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

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Candle Dinner Flying Table Out Able

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

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Alcohol Interesting Person Cigarettes

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

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Enough Person Point Well Get Able

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

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Cell Phone End Driving Talking Phone

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.

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Work Communication Live Phones Email

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

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Person Three Will More Never Balls

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.

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Home Children Small Trying Attention

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

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Time Habit Early Bed Why Bright

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