Quotes About Disconnect

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

I am very busy. I work hard all the time. But I also need to relax; I need to disconnect. That's why I like horse-racing, spending time with my friends. It helps me to recover energy.

If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.

Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you're like, 'What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?'

For me as the founder, it was shocking to see how having a more formal structure with lines of reporting and processes can so easily start to disconnect you from the customer.

The most frustrating thing in life is having a conversation with someone who never looks up from their cell phone. How did we get here?

No one knows how to feel anything anymore. No one knows anymore. Ain't no one care. People have, like, experiences. Everything just another experience. They do things, but they don't feel it. It just all goes right through them. Like they a ghost. Like we all ghosts.

I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and its time to just unplug and look within.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Just got back from a 5 day camping trip. No phones, no Internet, no problem. It was great. Now time for a hot shower. I absolutely reek!

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and then we all understand how that feels, when you suddenly just have time and yourself.

I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out. Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice.

The ability to talk to other people seemed to be leaking out of me like air out of an old balloon.

He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.

They thought that they loved each other: — each thought so; but there was no love, no sympathy, no warmth. The very atmosphere was cold, — so cold that no fire could remove the chill.

Switch off the TV and tune in to yourself