"Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled."

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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

Susan Maushart

#Motivation Quotes #Needs Quotes #Discomfort Quotes

“Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)
“We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?”
“It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business to accomplish. The moment this happens the downward spiral begins.”

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“Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.”
“Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.”
“Love is giving everything and taking nothing”
“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.”
“My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.”

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