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
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.
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.
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
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.
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.
Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.
Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.
I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
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.
Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.
Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.
Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
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.
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
