Susan Maushart Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• ...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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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