Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savantis an American who is known for having the highest recorded IQ according to the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. Savant is a magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright. Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn," a Parade magazine Sunday column where she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 August 1946
CountryUnited States of America
Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
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.
If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.
Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.