Quotes from Susan Maushart

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

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

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically we connect, one to another, the more disconnected our relationships become.

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

He's a pug and he always looks that way.

The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.

SMS made everything negotiable: hour by hour, minute by minute. There was no such thing as a firm plan or a final schedule.

Friend' requires an adjective these days, since it otherwise feels empty.

Yet where lies the line between compromise and surrender? Between relinquishing the ideal of perfection on the one hand, and losing one's integrity on the other?

The whole point of becoming an adult is to achieve self-reliance.

Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.

A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of our brains.

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.

Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.

A world without boredom would be dull.

Have you ever considered whether Perth's 'dullness' may have inspired you rather than inhibited you?

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

Parenting in the age of mobile communication really does allow us to be there for our kids in a way never before possible.

No one's brain is different enough to make constant interruptions, distractions, and task-switching an optimal environment in which to function. No one's.

Giving up one activity does not guarantee you will take up a more worthy substitute.

The mind boggles, in other words, but the brain toggles- sometimes quite rapidly, from one task to the next.

Online chatting, on the other hand, has been linked to symptoms of loneliness, confusion, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and addiction.