Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. |
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. |
I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead. |
Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store. |
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. |
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. |
Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time. |
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. |
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. |
I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood. |
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. |
Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles. |
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed? |
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read. |
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering. |
Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker. |
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father. |
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked. |
Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward. |
Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes. |