Marilyn vos Savant Quotes - Page 2

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

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

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

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.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

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

Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

I love having ten times as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all my time, I'm stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be.