Susan Maushart quotes
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“Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.”
-- Susan MaushartSource : 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 MaushartSource : 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.”
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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 Quotes #Raising Children Quotes #Acknowledge Quotes
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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.”
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“Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.”
-- Susan MaushartSource : 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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“I do love competence in a man.”
Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.23, Crown
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“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
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Source : Tarja Halonen's speech at the opening of the Women of Learning exhibition in Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.
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