Quotes About Unplug

I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment.

Sabbath is not dependent upon our readiness to stop.

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.

Want to enjoy an restful day? Wake up, turn your phone on, meditate, look at the sky—then toss your phone into the bushes.

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

As a mom, spending quality time on the water with my family is a simple and relaxing way to unplug.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

Without self-violence, without the will to unplug from the system and its rewards, critique will only ever be the semblance of critique, reform without transformation.

I think that music is a lifestyle that you sort of intravenously plug into and unplug from when you do and don't need it. Some people live it 10 hours a day, some on weekends. It's no more important or non-important than that.

Once upon a time you could actually unplug and it wasn't, like, a weird thing. Now your friends will say, 'I'm fasting from social media.'

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

Sometimes you need that time away to disconnect from social media.

I think in today's world, we're so busy, and we're so distracted. But it's also really important to slow down.

We all need the pendulum swing of snatching spaces of solitude and serving tables of sociability. In fact, the more plugged in and connected we are, the more we need to unplug and disconnect. A world of presence needs a time of absence.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

There are times when I have to take, I call it a "silence bath," where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

Turn off the TV, turn off the Internet, just go out, and I bet you your life will get better really quick.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

Common or default recruitments are a phenomenon of thought in general: we are always ready to use default conceptual connections as we think. It is important to recognize, however, that common, default recruitments do not give us fixed basic concepts: we can always unplug the default connections; they are, in technical jargon, "defeasible." They look stable and fixed sometimes, but only because they are entrenched.

When I go on a hike, I leave my phone in the car.

This year, I had some downtime before my Australia tour and spent a week or so in Phuket, Thailand. As a confessed workaholic, sometimes it's good to unplug and detach and honestly, the scenery, the weather and the people truly made this an incredible place for me to recharge.

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.

When I'm with my parents, that's the place I can unplug. That's the place I can shut down and not worry about work or what's going on. I go home and hang out with them. I sleep more there than any place else ever.

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.