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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. View quote
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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. View quote
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. View quote
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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process. View quote
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Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you. View quote
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The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious. View quote
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A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three. View quote
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Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best. View quote
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Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news. View quote
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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. (Marilyn vos Savant)
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying. View quote
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Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked. View quote
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Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them. View quote
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I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] 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 isRight from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told? View quote
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An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it. View quote
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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever were stuck with. View quote
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Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do. (Marilyn vos Savant)
If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe youre never at home. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind. View quote
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It is a lot easier to prove that you dont 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. View quote
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