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 set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them
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.
My thoughts are like waffles - the first few don't look so good.
When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.
I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.
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.
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.
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've never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.
The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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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