"I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood."

"Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself."

"Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail."

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

"Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion."

"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."

"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from.""

"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

"Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues."

"A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three."

"Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary."

"Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best."

"Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments."

"Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar."

"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."

"Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred."

"Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side."

"While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying."

"Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list."

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying."

"Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles."

"Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning."

"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."

"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 the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker."

"Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity."

"Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces."

"Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time."

"Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country."

"I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems."

"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."

"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized."

"Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal."

"Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway."

"Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?"

"The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America."

"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."

"Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term."

"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth."

"Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once."

"Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table."

"Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read."

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news."

"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."

"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."