Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.Collection: Mistake
When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.Collection: Emotional
There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.Collection: Courage
A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.Collection: Doe
Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.Collection: Criticism
You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.Collection: Wise
The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.Collection: Self Esteem
Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.Collection: Self Esteem
One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.Collection: Inspirational
Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.Collection: Happiness
I've never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.Collection: Interesting
Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Morning
If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Girlfriend
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.Collection: Want
The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.Collection: Age
It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Thinking
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the newsCollection: Confusion
I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Mother
Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.Collection: Causes
A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.Collection: Leadership
The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Believe
Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.Collection: Life
If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.Collection: Succeed
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?Collection: Doors
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.Collection: Liberty
The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.Collection: Oil
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.Collection: Thinking
Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.Collection: Weed
I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.Collection: Children
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its ownCollection: Book
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.Collection: Kids
A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.Collection: Friendship
What women want is what men want. They want respect.Collection: Respect
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to readCollection: Literature