Susan Maushart quotes

“Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.”
-- Susan Maushart

Source : 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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“Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.”
-- Susan Maushart

Source : 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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“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

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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

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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

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

Source : 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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“Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.”

“The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.”

“So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.”

“At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.”

“I do love competence in a man.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.23, Crown

“Churches often confuse loyalty with competence.”

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

Source : 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

“Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.”

Source : Tarja Halonen's speech at the opening of the Women of Learning exhibition in Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.

“Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.”

“When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream.”