Marilyn Vos Savant
Her listing in the Guinness Book of Records as the person with the highest recorded intelligence quotient is the fact most closely tied to her public identity — a distinction that places her in a category of her own.
Marilyn Vos Savant was born on August 11, 1946, in St. Louis. A citizen of the United States writing in English, she has worked across several related fields: columnist, journalist, writer, and playwright. The Guinness listing gave her a recognizable name, and her work as a columnist, writer, and journalist has run alongside that recognition throughout her career.
She has also worked as a playwright, adding a creative dimension to her output as a writer. She received the distinction of Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, one of the more concrete professional recognitions attached to her name. That fellowship, alongside the Guinness Book of Records entry, represents the two most specific anchors in her public record — the latter being a formal acknowledgment from a named organization, grounding her in a particular professional community.
Quotes by Marilyn Vos Savant
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
Be able to live alone, even if you don’t want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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.
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.
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn’t embarrassed that he or she asked.
I believe a ‘talented’ person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.
While you’re writing, you can’t concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
Know how to drive safely when it’s raining or when it’s snowing. The two conditions are different.
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don’t have time to read.