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Susan Maushart Quotes

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

Susan Maushart
Maturity, Decision, Competence
Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.23, Penguin

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

Susan Maushart
Children, Acknowledge, Whole

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

Susan Maushart
Simple, Self, Bored

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

Susan Maushart
Cities, People, Personality
Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.180, Penguin

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Susan Maushart
Motivation, Needs, Discomfort
Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.51, Penguin

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

Susan Maushart
Mail, Overwhelmed, Boxes
Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.79, Penguin

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