Top 100 Vos Savant Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
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#3. Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.
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#4. Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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#5. A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
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#6. Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
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#7. Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.
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#8. I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
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#9. Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
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#11. Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
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#14. 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.
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#16. I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
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#17. Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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#18. Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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#19. 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.
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#20. Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
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#21. Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
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#22. I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.
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#23. I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
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#24. Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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#25. Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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?
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#28. Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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#29. No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
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#30. Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
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#31. A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.
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#33. Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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#34. Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
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#36. Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
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#39. Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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#40. There are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.
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#41. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
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#44. When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
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#45. 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.
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#47. Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.
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#48. If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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#49. Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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#50. Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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#52. Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.
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#53. Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
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#55. A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
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#56. Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
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#57. Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.
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#58. Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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#59. Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
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#60. Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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#63. A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
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#64. Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.
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#65. Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
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#67. Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
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#68. Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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#69. I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.
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#70. The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.
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#71. 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.
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#72. Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
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#75. 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.
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#76. The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
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#77. 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.
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#78. Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.
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#79. Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.
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#80. A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.
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#81. [When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.
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#82. Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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#83. Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
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#84. Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
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#85. The original answer defines certain conditions, [ ... ] Anything else is a different question.
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#86. You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.
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#87. If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another ,before you do anything,you should first decide wether you have a better head or a better heart.
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#88. 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.
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#89. One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
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#90. Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
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#91. Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
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#92. Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
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#94. 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.
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#95. There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
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#98. Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.
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#99. One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.
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#100. [Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.
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