The Winter of Our Disconnect Quotes

“...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, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“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.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“Friend' requires an adjective these days, since it otherwise feels empty.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“SMS made everything negotiable: hour by hour, minute by minute. There was no such thing as a firm plan or a final schedule.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“He's a pug and he always looks that way.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“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, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of our brains.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“The whole point of becoming an adult is to achieve self-reliance.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“Online chatting, on the other hand, has been linked to symptoms of loneliness, confusion, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and addiction.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“The mind boggles, in other words, but the brain toggles- sometimes quite rapidly, from one task to the next.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“Giving up one activity does not guarantee you will take up a more worthy substitute.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“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.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“Parenting in the age of mobile communication really does allow us to be there for our kids in a way never before possible.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“Have you ever considered whether Perth's 'dullness' may have inspired you rather than inhibited you?”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“A world without boredom would be dull.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect

“Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.”
― Susan Maushart, The Winter of Our Disconnect