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
Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.
Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.
You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
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.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
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.
Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.
The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?
Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.