Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. Marilyn vos Savant More Quotes by Marilyn vos Savant More Quotes From Marilyn vos Savant To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant leadershipwiseinspirational 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? Marilyn vos Savant cargamesdoors There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply. Marilyn vos Savant plentycourageworld Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. Marilyn vos Savant strengthsuccessinspirational If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart. Marilyn vos Savant sweet-loveheartfirsts Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with. Marilyn vos Savant successmayhappiness Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn vos Savant motivationalpositiveinspirational 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. Marilyn vos Savant safe-environmentself-esteempay Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. Marilyn vos Savant ableliteratureway You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise. Marilyn vos Savant being-wiseintelligentwise 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. Marilyn vos Savant good-moodliteraturefirsts 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. Marilyn vos Savant kissingmorningnight Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind. Marilyn vos Savant futuremirrorsfaces The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. Marilyn vos Savant educationmathlife 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. Marilyn vos Savant girlfriendtiesbelieve 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. Marilyn vos Savant judgingmaythinking 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. Marilyn vos Savant weedgardenflower 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. Marilyn vos Savant slavelibertyremember Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. Marilyn vos Savant qualitythreeliterature Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best. Marilyn vos Savant trufflescertaintaste
