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Marilyn vos Savant
August 11, 1946 -
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer

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.

   

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